re·pos·i·to·ry
ri-ˈpä-zə-ˌtȯr-ē 
plural repositories
1
: a place, room, or container where something is deposited or stored : depository
2
: a side altar in a Roman Catholic church where the consecrated Host is reserved from Maundy Thursday until Good Friday
3
: one that contains or stores something nonmaterial
considered the book a repository of knowledge
4
: a place or region richly supplied with a natural resource
5
: a person to whom something is confided or entrusted
of a drug
: designed to act over a prolonged period
repository penicillin
Examples of repository in a Sentence
Noun
a repository for nuclear waste
He is the repository of many secrets.
She is the repository of her family's history.
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Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 21 Jan. 2026
Those crawlers copy webpage content at scale, then AI companies filter and package it into training datasets, the vast repositories that LLMs learn from.
—Craig S. Smith, Forbes.com, 21 Jan. 2026
Aggressive data collection methods by AI developers, including from Wikipedia's vast repository of free knowledge, has raised questions about who ultimately pays for the artificial intelligence boom.
—Arkansas Online, 18 Jan. 2026
Open-source repositories on platforms such as GitHub allow newcomers to demonstrate applied skills including work on AI security, bias mitigation, and deepfake detection.
—IEEE Spectrum, 15 Jan. 2026
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Noun
When Brooks’ collaborators aren’t available to be interviewed, the directors have a solid repository of archival interviews with Gene Wilder and Blazing Saddles co-writer Richard Pryor.
—Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 21 Jan. 2026
Those crawlers copy webpage content at scale, then AI companies filter and package it into training datasets, the vast repositories that LLMs learn from.
—Craig S. Smith, Forbes.com, 21 Jan. 2026
Aggressive data collection methods by AI developers, including from Wikipedia's vast repository of free knowledge, has raised questions about who ultimately pays for the artificial intelligence boom.
—Arkansas Online, 18 Jan. 2026
Open-source repositories on platforms such as GitHub allow newcomers to demonstrate applied skills including work on AI security, bias mitigation, and deepfake detection.
—IEEE Spectrum, 15 Jan. 2026
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“Repository.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/repository. Accessed 27 Jan. 2026.
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re·pos·i·to·ry
ri-ˈpäz-ə-ˌtōr-ē
of a drug
: designed to act over a prolonged period
repository penicillin
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