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as in reserves
a collection of things kept available for future use or need
a cache of medical supplies in case of emergency
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as in stashes
a supply stored up and often hidden away
the squirrel kept a cache of nuts in the hollow of the tree
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as in stores
to put (something of future use or value) in a safe or secret place
an eccentric who cached money in odd places, such as under the boards of the floor
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as in conceals
to put into a hiding place
cached the fugitives in their cellar until they could make their way to Canada
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Recent Examples of caches
Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 3 Oct. 2025
Jon Stanley, currently a senior data scientist at Geocaching HQ, didn’t start searching for caches right away.
—Sarah Scoles, Scientific American, 18 Sep. 2025
If origin servers go down or are slow, edge caches can still serve stale content temporarily.
—Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
The gray hoards his food, making caches of acorns and other nuts or burying them in the ground.
—Charles Elliott, Outdoor Life, 21 Aug. 2025
Noun
Williams had two touchdown caches on the night.
—Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 3 Oct. 2025
Jon Stanley, currently a senior data scientist at Geocaching HQ, didn’t start searching for caches right away.
—Sarah Scoles, Scientific American, 18 Sep. 2025
If origin servers go down or are slow, edge caches can still serve stale content temporarily.
—Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
The gray hoards his food, making caches of acorns and other nuts or burying them in the ground.
—Charles Elliott, Outdoor Life, 21 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for caches
Noun
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Feeding San Diego plans to dip into reserves if necessary to meet the higher demand with SNAP delays.—
Kristen Taketa,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
23 Oct. 2025
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Pristine Greenland is potentially home to one of the world’s largest oilfield reserves.—
Jordan Blum,
Fortune,
22 Oct. 2025
Noun
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The video also did not show any large or clear stashes of drugs inside the boat.—
Aamer Madhani,
Chicago Tribune,
2 Sep. 2025
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In the case of the two bridges in Russia, the Ukrainian military found out about the stashes of mines and used it to its own advantage.—
Svitlana Vlasova,
CNN Money,
29 Aug. 2025
Verb
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To reduce sensitive data, the system stores only pseudonymous resident profiles locally and doesn’t access cameras or microphones.—
Keivan Navaie,
IEEE Spectrum,
22 Oct. 2025
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Researchers revealed that robot stores a digital twin of the wall.—
Abhishek Bhardwaj,
Interesting Engineering,
13 Oct. 2025
Verb
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Such mismatched windows can be a sign that an interior wall conceals unused space or that a room has been sealed off during renovations.—
Soo Kim,
MSNBC Newsweek,
20 Oct. 2025
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Thick and fast-growing, the greenery conceals a chain-link fence that helps with crowd control between the stands and field.—
Cameron Beall,
Southern Living,
18 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Towns stretching out northwest from Pamukkale along a geological fault line tap into increasingly hotter supplies of steam and water surging up from underground.—
Barry Neild,
CNN Money,
27 Oct. 2025
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Over the past year, Ukraine dispatched thousands of wheeled ground robots to its frontline military units to help deliver supplies, evacuate the wounded and, in some cases, attack the intruding Russians troops and push them out without risking the lives of Ukrainian soldiers.—
Tereza Pultarova,
Space.com,
27 Oct. 2025
Noun
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As hoards are often buried with other remains, archaeologists have dispatched teams to investigate.—
Maria Mocerino,
Interesting Engineering,
12 Oct. 2025
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Now, more than ever, social media serves as a critical entry point for hoards of new fans.—
Ben Pickman,
New York Times,
10 Oct. 2025
Verb
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Incarceration often hides in plain sight.—
PhotoVogue,
Vogue,
25 Oct. 2025
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The scene from Badlands hangs over the songwriting like a dark cloud; Spacek’s bedroom in the scene looks quite a bit like the bedroom in which the young Springsteen hides from his own angry father.—
Sadie Sartini Garner,
Pitchfork,
24 Oct. 2025
Noun
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The main channel of the Amazon River constantly erodes existing land and deposits new earth.—
Isa Cardona,
CNN Money,
23 Oct. 2025
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Suzuki argued that Japan had enough uranium deposits at home and overseas to build the bomb.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
23 Oct. 2025
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“Caches.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/caches. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.
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