inventorying

present participle of inventory
as in listing
to make a list of would you inventory the supplies in the back room?

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Recent Examples of inventorying Firefighters have finished inventorying homes and buildings in Rico and are now focused on building a contingency line to protect the town in the unlikely event the fire burns over Anchor Mountain. Katie Langford, Denver Post, 13 Aug. 2025
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listing
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  • By listing the numbers in all these vectors as one set of coordinates, Galashin was able to define a point in a high-dimensional space.
    Kevin Hartnett, Quanta Magazine, 6 Oct. 2025
  • On desktop, scroll down to the bottom of the album listing and find more releases of the same album at the bottom right.
    Melina Khan, USA Today, 3 Oct. 2025

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“Inventorying.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inventorying. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.

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