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make or include in an itemized record or report
Inventory all books before the end of the year -
to look at critically or searchingly, or in minute detail
he scrutinized his likeness in the mirror
How To Use take stock In A Sentence
- With Thanksgiving around the corner, I thought it would be a good time to take stock of the stockless. Beth Broderick: Poor... It's The New Rich
- Take stock of your festive decorations and decide if any need replacing. The Sun
- If anyone is gonna crib again saying that the faulty rules have enabled an undeserving team to reach the semis, let us take stock of the situation.
- Press Trust of India Sonia comments hint at greater role for Rahul VARANASI: Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Sunday said she had sent Rahul Gandhi to take stock of flood-affected areas in UP and Bihar in September 2008, in what amounted to the party chief dropping a clear hint that the young AICC general secretary may be handed over bigger responsibilities in the coming future. India News Digest: 'Rajus Gave Fake Papers to Auditors'
- I also dwelt, perhaps overheavily, on certain doubts and reservations, of which even his most devoted admirers must take stock.
- Having just returned from their trip to Brussels, Carol and her friends sit in her house in one of the broad avenues set back from the town's harbour, to take stock.
- We care about this kind of handicapping because it gives us a chance, after Harper's cabinet re-alignment earlier this month, to take stock of who's getting what done for this minority government and what lessons other cabinet ministers - I'm looking at you Jim Prentice and Tony Clement - might learn from these successes. Winnipeg Sun
- Since the film rarely stops to take stock of its overcomplicated story (complete with political counterplots and a largely unexplored backstory), things can get a little confusing at times.
- Periodically take stock physically of raw materials and finish goods.
- This is a good moment to take stock of one of the biggest social experiments in history. Times, Sunday Times