inventories 1 of 2

plural of inventory

inventories

2 of 2

verb

present tense third-person singular of inventory
as in lists
to make a list of would you inventory the supplies in the back room?

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Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of inventories
Noun
Emergency inventories, meanwhile, have reached dangerously low levels and have not been replenished. — Richard Haass, Foreign Affairs, 23 Sep. 2026 Blanch estimates at least 350 million barrels have disappeared from the global above-ground oil inventories since levels peaked in March. — Deena Zaidi, CNBC, 22 Sep. 2026 That becomes increasingly important as Washington seeks to replenish and expand inventories of advanced weapons. — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 17 Sep. 2026 The latest projection from the Energy Information Administration expects national distillate inventories to fall below 100 million barrels in September and stay at that level through much of 2027. — Jamie Webster, The Conversation, 17 Sep. 2026 The White House and the Pentagon have downplayed concerns about depleted weapons inventories. — Eleanor Watson, CBS News, 15 Sep. 2026 He was dispatched to the Alaska Peninsula to do biological inventories on public land that was up for lease to private companies. — Rivka Galchen, New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for inventories
Noun
  • About 7% of global energy supplies and around 12% to 15% of all global shipping transit the strait.
    — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 27 Sep. 2026
  • Regardless, any diplomatic efforts that pause the fighting and release the choke hold on global energy supplies are just the beginning.
    — Robin Wright, New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • Bain & Company found that 80% of consumers now rely on AI summaries for at least 40% of their searches, and that organic traffic has fallen 15% to 25% as a result.
    — Boris Dzhingarov, Forbes.com, 25 Sep. 2026
  • Strengthening connection with residents through timely updates, plain language summaries of major decisions and earlier community input.
    — Miami Herald staff, Miami Herald, 23 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • The company also lists the DF150 for operation across its full specified temperature range without performance degradation.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 25 Sep. 2026
  • The company currently lists a maximum airspeed of 190 mph and a maximum flying range of 450 miles.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 25 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • By separating skill acquisition from task specification, BeyondMimic provides a route toward humanoid robots that can learn large repertoires of human movement and recombine those skills to handle new situations without task-specific retraining.
    — Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 26 Aug. 2026
  • Over the ensuing decades, the young nation incorporated the musical repertoires, instruments and expressions of immigrants from various European and African groups.
    — Ted Olson, The Conversation, 2 July 2026

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“Inventories.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inventories. Accessed 29 Sep. 2026.

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