inventory
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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
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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
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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
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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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