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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Recent Examples of inventories
Noun
Supply shocks in energy inventories are escalating inflation worries just as the Federal Reserve is trying to restore price stability. Paulina Likos, CNBC, 17 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 As crude inventories in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve drain toward their operational limits, America is left, armed with just 300 million barrels. Siddharth Misra, Fortune, 25 Aug. 2026 Missile inventories cannot refill instantly because the underlying network was never built for sudden, sustained high-volume demand. Dennis Mitzner, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2026 Some have seen their inventories literally go up in smoke and, despite promises of compensation, many are facing imminent bankruptcy. Fred Weir, Christian Science Monitor, 19 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for inventories
Noun
  • As the airplane air-conditioning worked overtime in the desert heat, the grooms traversed the tarmac numerous times to shuttle water and supplies to the horses.
    Danielle Rossingh, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2026
  • Millions of people live in or near bear habitat across the Rockies, where widespread drought has reduced supplies of nuts, berries and plants that bears eat.
    ABC News, ABC News, 8 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • Reasoning paths and summaries are techniques some AI developers have used in distillation attacks, in which a model maker trains their technology on another model's outputs.
    Jon Martindale, PC Magazine, 18 Sep. 2026
  • Amtrak has published online summaries of the environmental studies.
    Brian J. Rogal, Chicago Tribune, 18 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Trump lists eight separate investment accounts but doesn’t give any indication of which institutions manage them.
    Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 19 Sep. 2026
  • NewTree still has plenty to prove Right now, Apple lists NewTree as an iPhone app.
    Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 18 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 20 Sep. 2026.

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