stockpile
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Since June 2025, the fate of the stockpile has remained uncertain.
From Barron's ● Oct. 27, 2026
The country needs to carefully manage its shrinking stockpile of missiles, he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
To increase supply, he has released millions of barrels from the U.S.’s emergency petroleum stockpile, draining the reserve to its lowest level in 44 years.
From Slate ● Oct. 5, 2026
It wants us to stockpile canned food and drinking water, strengthen our civic resilience, and plan for the possibility of war.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
Dad always worked from sunup until sundown in the weeks before the first snow, trying to stockpile enough money from hauling scrap and building barns to outlast the winter, when jobs were scarce.
From "Educated" by Tara Westover
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Gasoline stockpiles rose by 3.9 million barrels, while distillate inventories declined by 1.5 million barrels, the agency said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026
These levels could be high enough to support a rebuild in global oil and refined product stockpiles, he adds.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026
As Tehran retains missile and drone stockpiles, Washington is trying to move more servicemembers and diplomatic staff out of harm’s way.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2026
Gasoline stockpiles also declined, while distillate inventories rose.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026
At Birkenau, we had seen the stockpiles of riches in “Canada,” the camp storehouse.
From "Prisoner B-3087" by Alan Gratz
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Analysts estimate Iran has hundreds to thousands of ballistic missiles, and U.S. and regional officials believe it has resumed production of ballistic missiles in limited numbers using stockpiled components and working in underground facilities.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
Because so much copper is stockpiled in the U.S., the cost of copper futures for near-term delivery is cheaper than for further-out delivery—a futures curve shape described as contango.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
Iran has managed to dig out missiles trapped in underground facilities by U.S. attacks early in the war and has recently resumed production of new missiles from stockpiled parts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026
Mum-of-three Kay Devonshire-Murphy, from Fareham, said she stockpiled uniforms across the year from charity shops and second hand sales.
From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026
I peered inside and saw two figures in the far corner, sitting amid a bunch of stockpiled cases of ambrosia and strawberry preserves.
From "The Battle of the Labyrinth" by Rick Riordan
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To prepare for the winter, the city has been building backup heating systems and stockpiling fuel, food and drinking water.
From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026
They’ve floated ideas like buying remote islands, stockpiling iodine pills, or moving to electromagnetically shielded bunkers in the desert.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026
Some countries airlift or airdrop humanitarian relief supplies, but are also concerned about stockpiling for themselves.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026
And in a lengthy Truth Social post on 3 September, Trump claimed that the US had "virtually unlimited" amounts of ammunition and is "stockpiling and preparing for any contingency that could happen".
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026
Instead of playing volleyball in the sandpit, counselors and satyrs were stockpiling weapons in the tool shed.
From "The Sea of Monsters" by Rick Riordan
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