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as in supply
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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2
as in summary
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 to list
to make a list of
would you inventory the supplies in the back room?
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Recent Examples of inventory
Eliza Berman, Time, 26 June 2025
Each Artemis mission costs $4.2 billion per flight, and that's with shuttle-era engines and boosters that NASA and its contractors already have in their inventories.
—ArsTechnica, 26 June 2025
Kori Schake, Foreign Affairs, 24 Aug. 2021
Test Quantum-Resistant Algorithms Alongside Existing Systems Organizations should inventory their cryptographic assets and identify vulnerabilities.
—Expert Panel®, Forbes, 10 Dec. 2024
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Noun
In early 2011, she was hired to complete an inventory of the audiovisual archives housed within New York City’s International Center of Photography.
—Eliza Berman, Time, 26 June 2025
Each Artemis mission costs $4.2 billion per flight, and that's with shuttle-era engines and boosters that NASA and its contractors already have in their inventories.
—ArsTechnica, 26 June 2025
Verb
The best thing Americans can do in the near term to restore the health of civil-military relations is to inventory those norms and renew the commitment to upholding them.
—Kori Schake, Foreign Affairs, 24 Aug. 2021
Test Quantum-Resistant Algorithms Alongside Existing Systems Organizations should inventory their cryptographic assets and identify vulnerabilities.
—Expert Panel®, Forbes, 10 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for inventory
Noun
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Advertisement Cuomo has pledged to increase the housing supply, in part by identifying public land that could be redeveloped, and pass rent-stabilization laws.—
Solcyré Burga,
Time,
24 June 2025
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While the nation’s food supply faces all sorts of threats, from diseases to tariffs to climate change, we are now faced with what can happen when the food supply is attacked by hackers, and not by directly targeting stores’ systems.—
Louis Biscotti,
Forbes.com,
24 June 2025
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The summary points above were compiled with the help of AI tools and edited by journalists in the Miami Herald newsroom.—
Miami Herald Archives,
Miami Herald,
27 June 2025
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Here are some of the other key points included in the CBA extension, based on a summary of the memorandum of understanding obtained by The Athletic.—
Pierre LeBrun,
New York Times,
27 June 2025
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To shake things up, positions are listed by level of intrigue.—
Ben Standig,
New York Times,
19 June 2025
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Six years later, only a handful of Chinese firms, including Huatai Securities Co., have listed in London, raising a total $6.6 billion, and trading has been muted.—
Lionel Lim,
Fortune,
19 June 2025
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That repertoire, however, was never one-dimensional.—
Ime Ekpo,
Forbes.com,
26 June 2025
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King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard and the San Diego Symphony, conducted by Sarah Hicks, with DJ Crenshaw Having recorded at least 27 albums in the past 15 years, the shape-shifting Australian rock band King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard has a formidably sized repertoire of songs from which to draw.—
George Varga,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
20 June 2025
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The president did not detail specific asks or outline how negotiations could proceed following the U.S. strikes.—
Jesse Byrnes,
The Hill,
22 June 2025
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The Athletic reported in March that Silver would pitch the NBA Board of Governors with the outline of a plan to launch a new pro basketball league in Europe within the next couple of years.—
Joe Vardon,
New York Times,
20 June 2025
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The collapse could have been triggered by failure of a slab-column connection in the pool deck, where the structural design did not meet building code standards.—
Linda Robertson,
Miami Herald,
24 June 2025
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Think adults-only pools, lounges, bars, and fun extras like champagne and tequila tastings.—
Ronny Maye,
Essence,
24 June 2025
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And that means beginning to take serious stock of their nuclear options.—
FLORENCE GAUB,
Foreign Affairs,
24 June 2025
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And the Orlando Magic swapped the No. 16 pick, Kentavious Caldwell-Pope, Cole Anthony and a heap of future first-round stock for Desmond Bane in a deal with the Memphis Grizzlies on June 15.—
Julia Poe,
Chicago Tribune,
24 June 2025
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“Inventory.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inventory. Accessed 3 Jul. 2025.
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