as in warehouses
a building for storing goods
a book depository
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Recent Examples of depositories
The rest is spread between depositories in West Point, Denver, and a vault 80 feet (24 meters) below the Fed’s building in lower Manhattan.
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Jason Ma, Fortune, 29 Sep. 2025
Jason Ma, Fortune, 29 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for depositories
Noun
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There is actually quite a bit of science and experimentation that goes into storing barrels in warehouses, believe it or not.—
Melinda Salchert,
Southern Living,
2 Oct. 2025
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As the population increased, apartments, shopping centers, offices and warehouses replaced many of the orange groves and forests that once surrounded Orlando.—
Gisela Salomon,
Fortune,
2 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Our current ideas about archives as these infinite repositories feel like a bit of a fiction.—
Lauren Michele Jackson,
New Yorker,
5 Oct. 2025
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In the mid 2000s, Gates was working as an arts administrator at the University of Chicago, while also buying derelict buildings on the city’s South Side and turning them into artists’ studios or repositories for his collections of books, records, and photographic slides.—
Elizabeth Cantrell,
Travel + Leisure,
26 Sep. 2025
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“Depositories.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/depositories. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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