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
Strategic Petroleum Reserve last week, bringing the federal inventory of crude oil to its lowest since the autumn of 1982.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026
Diageo is reducing the amount it distills by 50% over the next three years, while it works through an $8.5 billion backlog of aging inventory.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 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
“Just simple things like keeping track of inventory and making the shelves neat,” I explain.
From "Betty Before X" by Ilyasah Shabazz and Renée Watson
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TrendForce says key components now account for a much larger share of production costs than a year ago, while inventories purchased at lower prices are gradually running out.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 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
U.S. inventories in Europe of PAC-3 Patriot interceptors and Atacms surface-to-surface missiles are deemed to be ‘beyond critical.’
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 29, 2026
The EIA reported a 95,000 barrel increase in crude inventories, which was smaller than expected but still a fourth consecutive weekly rise.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
Many guardians would purchase, for their wards, goods from their own stores or inventories at inflated prices.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
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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
“Helfenstein also evaluated and inventoried looted items, and arranged for their packing and shipment to Germany.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 10, 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
In the interest of transparency — and reducing the shame women feel for having such procedures — she inventoried for Cooper the procedures she has and hasn’t had.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 21, 2024
Fortunately, he did not, and Brereton dropped us off at the State Shop, where Toussaint’s belongings were to be inventoried before he was shipped out.
From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover
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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
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
Across North America, there are an estimated 170 fireflies species, which are technically beetles in the order Coleoptera, but inventorying them is a challenge.
From Salon ● Sep. 21, 2023
He looks me over as if inventorying my whole being.
From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson
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