as in supply
the number of individuals or amount of something available at any given time
the area boasts a large reservoir of college-educated people for companies to draw on
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Recent Examples of reservoir
To keep that water from flooding the city, the dams store it in giant, flat natural reservoirs that look like nature parks when there isn't a storm.
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Laura Sullivan, NPR, 8 June 2025
To restore recreation at all the reservoirs, the price tag would be $622,000.
—David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 June 2025
That force has jurisdiction over coastal areas and took part in previous searches of beaches, wells and reservoirs using specialist divers.
—Reuters, CNN Money, 3 June 2025
There are now more than 20,000 homes inside the reservoir areas designed to flood during severe storms.
—Laura Sullivan, NPR, 8 June 2025
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Laura Sullivan, NPR, 8 June 2025
To restore recreation at all the reservoirs, the price tag would be $622,000.
—David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 June 2025
That force has jurisdiction over coastal areas and took part in previous searches of beaches, wells and reservoirs using specialist divers.
—Reuters, CNN Money, 3 June 2025
There are now more than 20,000 homes inside the reservoir areas designed to flood during severe storms.
—Laura Sullivan, NPR, 8 June 2025
See All Example Sentences for reservoir
Recent Examples of Synonyms for reservoir
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Closing the Strait of Hormuz One option that would have massive global consequences would be to close the Strait of Hormuz, a vital shipping route through which more than 20 percent of the world’s oil supplies pass daily.—
Ellen Mitchell,
The Hill,
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 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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Higher mortgage rates, which shot over 7% in April and have settled back just under that mark since then, are keeping potential monthly payments near generational highs and pricing out significant pools of buyers, especially first-timers.—
Diana Olick,
CNBC,
24 June 2025
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This accompanied offsetting changes in wholesale and retail inventories, which saw the former decrease by .3 percent while the latter increased at the same rate.—
Peter Aitken,
MSNBC Newsweek,
27 June 2025
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However, if firms need to absorb some of the cost to keep customers, Bowley said, reducing inventories, operations, or headcount are other potential options.—
Preston Fore,
Fortune,
27 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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“Reservoir.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/reservoir. Accessed 4 Jul. 2025.
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