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as in supplies
the number of individuals or amount of something available at any given time
the dealership has an unusually large inventory of pre-owned vehicles
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as in summaries
a short statement of the main points
offers an informative inventory of everything that is known about the virus at this time
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as in lists
to make a list of
would you inventory the supplies in the back room?
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Recent Examples of inventories
Prabhat Ranjan Mishra,
Interesting Engineering,
4 July 2026
European allies and Canada scoured their inventories to see what could be offered should one of them come under attack.
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ABC News,
3 July 2026
India, which relies on the Gulf for the vast majority of its oil imports, is moving to build larger crude inventories, expand storage capacity, and negotiate new supply partnerships in a bid to boost energy security.
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Jeronimo Gonzalez,
semafor.com,
3 July 2026
Glinyanov said the company’s traditional business of selling and renting heavy machinery remains healthy, with dealer inventories improving and retail demand holding up.
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Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez,
Fortune,
2 July 2026
Why Visibility Matters More Than Speed In my experience, the organizations navigating disruption most effectively are not necessarily the ones with the largest inventories or the lowest operating costs.
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Jim Bureau,
Forbes.com,
30 June 2026
As for inventories, Nike reported roughly flat levels compared to last year, reflecting an increase in units, offset by shifts in product mix.
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Jeff Marks,
CNBC,
30 June 2026
That’s why economists look beyond new orders and compare them with shipments, inventories, and backlogs.
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Doug Ashburn,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
26 June 2026
The early peak shipping season also coincides with lower retail inventories across the board.
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Glenn Taylor,
Footwear News,
25 June 2026
Noun
Using a common fighter fleet simplifies logistics by reducing the need for separate maintenance systems, spare parts inventories and specialised training programmes.
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Prabhat Ranjan Mishra,
Interesting Engineering,
4 July 2026
European allies and Canada scoured their inventories to see what could be offered should one of them come under attack.
—
ABC News,
3 July 2026
India, which relies on the Gulf for the vast majority of its oil imports, is moving to build larger crude inventories, expand storage capacity, and negotiate new supply partnerships in a bid to boost energy security.
—
Jeronimo Gonzalez,
semafor.com,
3 July 2026
Glinyanov said the company’s traditional business of selling and renting heavy machinery remains healthy, with dealer inventories improving and retail demand holding up.
—
Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez,
Fortune,
2 July 2026
Why Visibility Matters More Than Speed In my experience, the organizations navigating disruption most effectively are not necessarily the ones with the largest inventories or the lowest operating costs.
—
Jim Bureau,
Forbes.com,
30 June 2026
As for inventories, Nike reported roughly flat levels compared to last year, reflecting an increase in units, offset by shifts in product mix.
—
Jeff Marks,
CNBC,
30 June 2026
That’s why economists look beyond new orders and compare them with shipments, inventories, and backlogs.
—
Doug Ashburn,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
26 June 2026
The early peak shipping season also coincides with lower retail inventories across the board.
—
Glenn Taylor,
Footwear News,
25 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for inventories
Noun
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The shipment includes emergency health kits for urgent medical care, including supplies for safe births, newborn care, disease prevention and treatment, according to the United Nations.
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At donation centers across Miami-Dade County, members of the Venezuelan community are collecting supplies for victims while anxiously waiting for news from home.
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Speaking of data, the system can also sync with an Apple Watch to display session summaries that include statistics like duration, shot count and calories burned.
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Although the court livestreams the audio of oral arguments, that’s not the case for the summaries the justices give of their opinions.
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The venue's website lists a June 28 concert by Rüfüs Du Sol and a July 7 performance by Bon Jovi, with no public events scheduled in between.
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America250, the bipartisan initiative that is coordinating semiquincentennial celebrations, lists 68 official sponsors on its website.
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Learning a dozen-plus pitchers, getting a grasp on their repertoires, determining how they can best be handled and what makes each tick was a challenge, along with understanding how the Rays do things.
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This is about the leap toward specificity, to diving below the surface of the most broadly appealing, easy-to-synthesize dishes — the ones, from any nation’s cuisine, that rarely make their way into restaurant repertoires.
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