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
Hence, retail traders will gain a cheaper and more precise way to speculate on crude, but production, consumption, inventories and geopolitics will remain the dominant forces setting prices. Lee Ying Shan, CNBC, 1 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 As businesses reopened almost overnight, inventories at every level of the supply chain had run dry, demand surged, and freight rates spiked to record levels at a moment when there were simply not enough trucks on the road. Daniel Fusch, USA Today, 18 Aug. 2026 Defenders need enough weapons to sustain an engagement without exhausting inventories or budgets. Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 18 Aug. 2026 The need to refill inventories and build up stronger strategic reserves of oil may also boost demand. Jason Bordoff, Foreign Affairs, 14 Aug. 2026 The moment a trend is approved, the system scans regional mill inventories to identify available stock fabric instantly, cutting days out of traditional sampling cycles. Arthur Zaczkiewicz, Footwear News, 12 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
  • Hopefully, the summaries below continue to provide you with a weekly snapshot of each club’s performances across the 2026-27 Premier League.
    Stuart James, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2026
  • Because many users are content with – or actively prefer – vague, simplified summaries, developers have optimized AI models to cater to that baseline.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 4 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • The center’s website still lists her as a board member as of Friday afternoon.
    Steve Kopack, NBC news, 4 Sep. 2026
  • The complaint lists the Sky, the Metropolitan Pier and Exposition Authority and the City of Chicago as defendants.
    Emily Ohman, New York Times, 4 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 11 Sep. 2026.

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