inventories

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“We went into this with pretty healthy inventories, but those are being drawn down, and that’s when it gets really precarious,” said Cummings.

From Los Angeles Times • May 3, 2026

Woods said the oil market has so far been able to manage the dislocation because of the amount of crude in commercial inventories and the release of some strategic governments reserves.

From Barron's • May 1, 2026

The size of the draw surprised analysts polled by The Wall Street Journal, who had expected inventories to decline by a mere 100,000 barrels.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 1, 2026

Morgan said that while global oil inventories in storage started the year at a “healthy” 8.4 billion barrels, there’s a limit to how much of that can be drawn down before the situations becomes dire.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 30, 2026

These are the ones that repeatedly turn up in style guides, pet-peeve lists, newspaper language columns, irate letters to the editor, and inventories of common errors in student papers.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker