armories

plural of armory
as in warehouses
a place where military arms are stored the soldier was sent to the armory to get a replacement weapon for the one that had been stolen

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Recent Examples of armories The work is part of a larger effort statewide to update the National Guard’s armories, as renovations in recent years have either been completed or are planned at many readiness centers, including those in Brainerd, New Ulm, Marshall, Moorhead and Fergus Falls. Elliot Mann, Twin Cities, 29 May 2026 Israel and Hezbollah agreed to a ceasefire a year ago, but Israel — which says the group has been rebuilding its armories, and that Lebanon is failing in its commitment to disarm it — has ramped up attacks against Hezbollah in recent days. semafor.com, 27 Nov. 2025 Even if their small military facilities, colloquially known as armories, had physically centralized fitness resources and equipment, many would be unable to take advantage of them. Davis Winkie, USA Today, 23 Oct. 2025
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Noun
  • Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps claimed to have destroyed several weapons-support warehouses, a satellite communications center, and a US forces building in a missile and drone attack on Bahrain’s Juffair military base today.
    Helen Regan, CNN Money, 14 July 2026
  • As with the warehouses, the grounds at Fort Bliss were never designed to serve as the site of long-term detention.
    Jonathan Blitzer, New Yorker, 13 July 2026
Noun
  • Soon, such drones were striking at will on Russian munitions depots, supply convoys, and transport routes.
    Joshua Yaffa, New Yorker, 15 July 2026
  • Space-rock mining could therefore enable the operation of off-Earth propellant depots, which would allow voyaging spacecraft to top off their tanks on the go and explore the solar system more deeply and ambitiously.
    Mike Wall, Space.com, 3 July 2026
Noun
  • First isolated in the 1940s by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, plutonium has been widely used to build nuclear arsenals by multiple countries.
    Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 30 June 2026
  • Rebuilding depleted arsenals will take years, with the Defense Production Act invoked to boost production.
    Frank Holmes, Forbes.com, 25 June 2026

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