as in warehouses
a building for storing goods
a book depository
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Recent Examples of depositories
Some investors use home safes, while others prefer third-party depositories that offer insured storage.
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Angelica Leicht, CBS News, 27 Feb. 2026
Those roles fall to separate custodians and depositories.
—Sharon Wu, USA Today, 19 Feb. 2026
Parks, vacant land and the Des Plaines River all became giant snow depositories.
—Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 2 Jan. 2026
The oil depositories of the Persian Gulf remain vital to the global economy.
—Ray Takeyh, Foreign Affairs, 4 Dec. 2025
Belgium, the home of Euroclear, one of the continent’s chief securities depositories, is wary of taking on the sole legal responsibility for the maneuver.
—Joshua Yaffa, New Yorker, 27 Nov. 2025
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.
—Jason Ma, Fortune, 29 Sep. 2025
Angelica Leicht, CBS News, 27 Feb. 2026
Those roles fall to separate custodians and depositories.
—Sharon Wu, USA Today, 19 Feb. 2026
Parks, vacant land and the Des Plaines River all became giant snow depositories.
—Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 2 Jan. 2026
The oil depositories of the Persian Gulf remain vital to the global economy.
—Ray Takeyh, Foreign Affairs, 4 Dec. 2025
Belgium, the home of Euroclear, one of the continent’s chief securities depositories, is wary of taking on the sole legal responsibility for the maneuver.
—Joshua Yaffa, New Yorker, 27 Nov. 2025
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.
—Jason Ma, Fortune, 29 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for depositories
Noun
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Marylanders do not want another one of these detention warehouses in our communities.—
Adam Thompson,
CBS News,
2 Mar. 2026
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The bill’s reemergence has rankled Republican lawmakers, who said new regulation on warehouses would target some of the state’s largest employers and insert the state into the employer-employee relationship.—
CT Mirror,
Hartford Courant,
27 Feb. 2026
Noun
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But if access can be secured and the computational infrastructure scaled to match, such efforts could transform natural history museums from static repositories into dynamic digital biomes.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
5 Mar. 2026
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Found in Southern Germany and Switzerland, it is widely considered a strong candidate for hosting underground nuclear waste repositories.—
Georgina Jedikovska,
Interesting Engineering,
4 Mar. 2026
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“Depositories.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/depositories. Accessed 10 Mar. 2026.
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