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
Fuel inventories that act as shock absorbers have already been tapped. — Matt Egan, CNN Money, 8 Oct. 2026 With the onset of the autumn agricultural harvest and winter heating seasons, domestic distillate inventories, including diesel, continue to trend downward. — CNBC, 7 Oct. 2026 This was a back-door effort to coerce Detroit to phase out the internal combustion engine, as the only realistic way car makers could meet the requirement was to massively expand their EV or hybrid inventories. — Arkansas Online, 5 Oct. 2026 Longer-term supply agreements first, then prepayments and strategic inventories, then financing arrangements or direct investments in producers. — Anthony Milewski, Forbes.com, 2 Oct. 2026 China has started limiting exports of refined products again as its own inventories of crude oil and refined products have dwindled. — New York Times, 2 Oct. 2026 China still has about four to six months of stockpiles, including commercial and strategic reserves, but Beijing may soon seek to gradually restock its inventories, although the Chinese may postpone these purchases if prices continue to soar. — Greg Pollock, The Conversation, 28 Sep. 2026 Raytheon’s production push comes as the United States and its allies seek larger missile inventories. — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 28 Sep. 2026 Emergency inventories, meanwhile, have reached dangerously low levels and have not been replenished. — Richard Haass, Foreign Affairs, 23 Sep. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for inventories
Noun
  • Russia extended its own diesel export ban for at least another month, while China suspended fuel exports for October, a move that will further squeeze global energy supplies.
    — Nicholas Wu, semafor.com, 2 Oct. 2026
  • 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
Noun
  • Headway condenses nonfiction and fiction books into 15-minute summaries that make key ideas easier to fit into your schedule.
    — StackCommerce Team, PC Magazine, 9 Oct. 2026
  • Brands have little to no data about their products outside of returns, reviews, and high-level quality summaries from the factory.
    — Arthur Zaczkiewicz, Footwear News, 8 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • Atlas Survival Shelters, a Texas manufacturer, lists modular steel models starting around $60,000, with larger versions climbing into the hundreds of thousands of dollars or more, before freight and installation.
    — Megan Buerger, Washington Post, 9 Oct. 2026
  • Watt also lists his top five drummers, including the Who’s Keith Moon and the Police’s Stewart Copeland.
    — SPIN Staff, SPIN, 9 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • Logan Henderson, Robert Gasser and Dustin May have impressive repertoires of their own.
    — Tyler Kepner, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2026
  • 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

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“Inventories.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inventories. Accessed 12 Oct. 2026.

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