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inventory

[in-vuhn-tawr-ee, -tohr-ee] / ˈɪn vənˌtɔr i, -ˌtoʊr i /


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The retailer needs a "mid-air engine swap" to rebuild its supply chain on diversified inventory sources beyond shipping directly from China, he added.

From Barron's Sep. 1, 2026

Once fully operational, the observatory is expected to vastly expand scientists’ inventory of planets outside our solar system, increasing it from about 6,300 planets to more than 100,000.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 30, 2026

Cognac giant Rémy Cointreau has €1.9 billion of inventory on its books, which is equivalent to three-quarters of the company’s entire market capitalization.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 30, 2026

That could put the shrinking inventory of American antimissile interceptors to the test.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 29, 2026

Colonel Aureliano Buendía had the seventy-two gold bricks included in the inventory of surrender and closed the ceremony without allowing any speeches.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

European gas inventories are at 65.09% capacity, around 12 percentage points below levels in August 2025, they note.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 1, 2026

A crisis may create opportunities for adversaries elsewhere, increasing pressure on finite inventories of weapons.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 30, 2026

One consequence is the assumption that wars will be intense but short, making smaller inventories and fewer production sources seem adequate.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 30, 2026

Maturing inventories show up as assets on distillers’ balance sheets until they are bottled and sold.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 30, 2026

Many nights after the door was locked and the shutters closed, I sat on in the flickering gaslight, poring over old inventories and wholesalers’ statements.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

The proposal would rescind the 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule, enacted in the final days of the Clinton administration, which barred development across vast areas of public forests and grasslands designated as "inventoried roadless areas."

From Barron's Aug. 18, 2026

A suspect isn’t supposed to take belongings from a crime scene before the items are inspected and inventoried.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 5, 2026

The California Air Resources Board estimates that in California, agriculture is the source of 8% of total inventoried greenhouse gas emissions.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 22, 2024

Repairing and updating the inventoried aircraft so they are airworthy takes about the same amount of resources as building an all-new aircraft, he added.

From Seattle Times Feb. 13, 2024

Once my trip was booked, I inventoried everything in my hideout and packed the items I wanted to take with me into an old rucksack.

From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline

The plan provides for the inventorying and storage of its remaining heavy weapons under Palestinian supervision, potentially removing the most significant obstacle to advancing the Trump-backed peace initiative for Gaza.

From BBC Jul. 31, 2026

"Carbon inventorying is still an evolving science," said Yunyu Zhang, lead author and graduate student from the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

From Science Daily Mar. 28, 2024

In a April 2021 executive order, President Joe Biden told the US Forest Service to start inventorying and protecting the 150-year-old "old-growth" forests which face logging threats.

From Salon Dec. 20, 2023

One by one, family members and friends speak this line to Vanya before inventorying their own monumental unhappiness.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 24, 2023

She held me at arm’s length, inventorying every little new freckle, every extra pound.

From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman




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