How to Use take stock in a Sentence

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  • The time has come for Marley to leave Jamaica and take stock.
    Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 8 Feb. 2024
  • Halfway through the year is a good time to take stock of our reading.
    Constance Grady, Vox, 20 July 2024
  • The summer is a good time to take stock of how your kids are faring.
    Margot MacHol Bisnow, Contributor, CNBC, 20 July 2024
  • So, now is a good time to take stock of your tailgate and party gear.
    Joey Morona, cleveland, 9 Aug. 2023
  • That’s another thing she’s had time to take stock of, during the starts and stops.
    Lawrence Specker | Lspecker@al.com, al, 21 Aug. 2023
  • So the idea is to take stock of what’s happening on the ground, and to check with the population.
    Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2024
  • The bye week provides a reasonable break to take stock.
    Zach Osterman, The Indianapolis Star, 24 Jan. 2024
  • So maybe take stock of who is watching Disney+ on your account.
    Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 7 Mar. 2024
  • January is a great time to take stock of your travel go-to items.
    Andie Kanaras, Travel + Leisure, 8 Jan. 2024
  • Once roads are cleared, ranchers can begin to take stock.
    Terry Castleman, Los Angeles Times, 8 Mar. 2023
  • Whether the collapse of one of the largest banks in the country leaves you freaked out or unfazed, this is a good moment to take stock.
    Geoffrey Rogow, WSJ, 16 Mar. 2023
  • Ahead of the warmer weather, now is the time to take stock of your collection of lightweight tops, shorts, and dresses.
    Rachel Trujillo, Peoplemag, 11 Mar. 2024
  • But a key lesson for her was to pause and take stock of her team’s energy, once those 100 days were up.
    Bypaige McGlauflin, Fortune, 13 Oct. 2023
  • Teams now have time to work on their programming, and the championship has time to take stock and plan for next time.
    Hazel Southwell, Ars Technica, 31 May 2024
  • Now is the time to take stock of the seasonal dent in our bank accounts and tidy up the economic impact.
    Ebony Flake, Essence, 17 Jan. 2024
  • So, take stock, write Cattrall a ginormous check, and just say yes.
    Radhika Seth, Vogue, 23 Aug. 2023
  • There’s a reason, too, that this moment was selected to take stock of the season.
    The Arizona Republic, 24 Apr. 2023
  • Scientists, as a result, have been slow to take stock of these surveys.
    Sara Novak, Scientific American, 3 Oct. 2022
  • For Jaquez, there was the opportunity to take stock against James.
    Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 4 Jan. 2024
  • Working from home created a safe space to take stock of work-life balance.
    Christina Montoya Fiedler, Parents, 29 May 2024
  • Before your weekly trip to the grocery store, take stock of how your produce is looking.
    Korin Miller, SELF, 13 Feb. 2024
  • Today’s New Moon is the perfect time to take stock of your situation.
    Georgia Nicols, The Denver Post, 9 Feb. 2024
  • The next most important thing is to take stock of your top priorities.
    Byanne Chow, Fortune, 23 Feb. 2023
  • The correct response from the United States would be to take stock of what happened in Brasília and pass the opposite rules into law.
    The Editors, National Review, 6 Sep. 2024
  • There was one section that was so eye-opening that I was inspired to move from couch to kitchen to take stock of my own dishwasher.
    Susan Hall Mahon, Southern Living, 26 Oct. 2023
  • Those feelings of depression start to settle in and people start to take stock of their losses.
    Jeremy Childs, Los Angeles Times, 17 Aug. 2023
  • The film, and the capitalist forces that be, practically force them to take stock of their entire lives over the course of a single evening.
    Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 26 Feb. 2024
  • After one recent raid, residents returned the day after to take stock of the carnage to their homes.
    Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 4 Jan. 2024
  • Today’s audiences have proven to take stock in the finer details of their favorite artist’s work.
    Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 5 Aug. 2024
  • In 2015 Hope joined a group of architects to take stock of the stadium as debate swirled around replacing it to keep the Chargers in San Diego.
    Roger Showley, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Mar. 2024

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