How to Use on order in a Sentence
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Newport said three of the raccoons are on order and should be in-store by next week.
—Chuck Schilken, Los Angeles Times, 14 July 2026
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L3Harris has more than 70 missile tracking and defense satellites on order, including five already in orbit.
—Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 14 July 2026
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The Max-10 had 1,533 aircraft on order, accounting for roughly a third of Boeing's 737 backlog.
—Elsa Ohlen, CNBC, 21 July 2026
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The collaboration aims to eliminate manual data entry, cut down on order errors and give businesses clearer real-time tracking over their shipping and inventory workflows.
—Arthur Zaczkiewicz, Footwear News, 23 July 2026
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As of June 2026, 441 vessels either operating or on order were ammonia-ready or ammonia-fueled.
—Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 28 Aug. 2026
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Transits are what revealed most of the more than 6,000 exoplanets now known, and Roman’s planners expect the bulge’s target-rich environment to yield on order of 100,000 more.
—Adam Kovac, Scientific American, 29 Aug. 2026
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Even if manufactured, delivered, and fielded by the end of this decade, which is extremely unlikely, Israel already operates 48 F-35s with another 52 on order.
—Paul Iddon, Forbes.com, 7 July 2026
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