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


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SpaceX reportedly wound up buying thousands of Cybertrucks when sales disappointed and inventory accumulated, providing some valuable insight into how Musk uses his portfolio of companies to prop each other up.

From Slate ● Nov. 9, 2026

His argument rests on the potential trade-off between borrowing costs and competition, although his comments about future rates and inventory are predictions.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 9, 2026

Today the automaker is launching its own ChatGPT app in the U.S., designed to let users get information on local inventory, configure custom vehicles, build lease financing packages and ultimately schedule a test drive.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 9, 2026

As Xu sees it, the key to accurate grocery delivery is through direct inventory management.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 8, 2026

It took a long while to satisfy her, as she had brought a complete inventory with her and went right through it.

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien

Commercial crude-oil inventories rose by 4.7 million barrels to 414.4 million barrels, the EIA said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 12, 2026

Hundreds of French supermarkets were hit in the October 11 and 12 cyberattacks, which raised the temperatures in their refrigerators, forcing many to throw away entire inventories of perishable food.

From Barron's ● Nov. 10, 2026

The number of barrels of oil the world still holds in inventories, according to the International Energy Agency.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 9, 2026

U.S. natural gas futures settled modestly lower after the EIA reported a larger-than-usual 77 Bcf increase in inventories for last week, increasing the storage surplus over the five-year average.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 9, 2026

In Ka’apor-managed forests, according to Balee’s plant inventories, almost half of the ecologically important species are those used by humans for food.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

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 model, called AviTeam, is the first to provide information for the 45 lesser-developed countries that have never inventoried their greenhouse gas emissions from aviation.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 30, 2024

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

All of my gear was being disassembled, inventoried, tagged, boxed, and prepared for auction.

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

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

I was squatting on the floor methodically inventorying my bounty to help streamline thank-you-card writing when my mother-in-law, who was visiting from Chennai, beckoned me over to our galley kitchen.

From Salon ● Nov. 30, 2021

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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