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as in fund
a sum of money set aside for a particular purpose
made a deposit at the bank every week
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as in to put
to arrange something in a certain spot or position
deposited their luggage at the foot of the hotel bed
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Recent Examples of deposit
Raven Brunner, PEOPLE, 13 May 2026
Many Americans paid $100 deposits.
—Daniel De Visé, USA Today, 13 May 2026
Luca Evans, Denver Post, 20 May 2026
Levels above 1,000 mg/kg are considered hazardous waste that must be deposited in a special landfill.
—Evan Bush, NBC news, 20 May 2026
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Noun
Ezekial Diaz and Hannah Tomaino put down a deposit to get married at Anna Maria College in Massachusetts on August 1.
—Raven Brunner, PEOPLE, 13 May 2026
Many Americans paid $100 deposits.
—Daniel De Visé, USA Today, 13 May 2026
Verb
Colorado Academy’s captain and leading scorer deposited two goals within the span of 2 second-half minutes to completely flip the momentum.
—Luca Evans, Denver Post, 20 May 2026
Levels above 1,000 mg/kg are considered hazardous waste that must be deposited in a special landfill.
—Evan Bush, NBC news, 20 May 2026
See All Example Sentences for deposit
Recent Examples of Synonyms for deposit
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The recent images also reveal layers of Mars' complex geological past across the region, suggesting Shalbatana Vallis may once have been even deeper before gradually filling in with sediments, ash and other material over time.—
Samantha Mathewson,
Space.com,
15 May 2026
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The phenomenon, caused by an uncharacteristically low number of tropical storms and hurricanes coupled with unseasonally light offshore winds, allowed sediment to settle closer to the ocean floor and the water to exhibit its true vibrant turquoise color.—
Tara Massouleh McCay,
Southern Living,
15 May 2026
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These reviews should include circumspect evaluations of the payments made to vendors and the services that were provided, as well as careful inspections of all transactions from association operating and reserve accounts.—
Meily Perez,
Miami Herald,
22 May 2026
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When building the balance sheet, the Fed credits itself with digital cash and uses it to buy assets from banks, creating reserves.—
Jeff Cox,
CNBC,
22 May 2026
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The fund aims to compensate people who say they have been targeted by the government.—
Brittney Melton,
NPR,
22 May 2026
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Several of the president’s allies have already talked about tapping into the fund.—
Ana Ceballos
Follow,
Los Angeles Times,
22 May 2026
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For the past 50 years, and in anticipation of their demise, scientists have been banking tissue samples of the species in repositories like San Diego’s Frozen Zoo.—
Alex Morris,
Rolling Stone,
19 May 2026
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These included shelf registration, relaxed international capital controls, eased restrictions on bank deposits, the rise of index and money market funds, lax oversight of corporate mergers and takeovers, and the creation of banking free-trade zones.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
15 May 2026
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Her team quickly put together a plan to help coördinate repairs, secure new electrical generators, implement a triage system, and organize trainings for staff.—
Clayton Dalton,
New Yorker,
15 May 2026
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The Bengals, who at one point trailed 6-1, put the game on ice with eight runs in the bottom of the sixth.—
Tony Baranek,
Chicago Tribune,
15 May 2026
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Its equipment specializes in thin-film deposition, which is the process of coating thin-film (atomic level) layers of chemicals onto a surface, such as a silicon wafer or glass substrate.—
Alan Ohnsman,
Forbes.com,
18 May 2026
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Coleman’s deposition, meanwhile, sheds new light on the investigation and on how cocaine is moved from The Bahamas into the United States, with South Florida — particularly Miami — serving as a key transit point.—
Jacqueline Charles,
Miami Herald,
18 May 2026
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On the Democratic side, Jesse Brewer, a former area manager for 7-Eleven locations, is running against Melissa Strange, a supply-chain director for an agribusiness company.—
The New Yorker,
New Yorker,
19 May 2026
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Analysts say the reason global markets were not immediately hit by the full impact of disruptions to Middle Eastern crude supplies is that commercial inventories, government strategic reserves, and tankers already at sea have acted as buffers.—
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CNBC,
18 May 2026
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Self said there’s a lot of uncertainty among schools in the Big 12, SEC, Big Ten and ACC because budgets are ballooning past the revenue-share distribution those programs are allotted by their schools.—
CJ Moore,
New York Times,
21 May 2026
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Councilmember Mai Vang was against sacrificing the ambassadors and again advocated to cut some long-vacant police department positions which could free up millions of dollars in the budget.—
Jennah Pendleton,
Sacbee.com,
20 May 2026
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“Deposit.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/deposit. Accessed 24 May. 2026.
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