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depositories

noun

plural of depository

as in warehouses

a building for storing goods a book depository

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Recent Examples of depositories But precious metals held within IRAs must meet IRS purity requirements and be held in qualified depositories. — Javier Simon, USA Today, 11 July 2026 Professional depositories typically conduct routine audits performed by third-party verification firms. — Angelica Leicht, CBS News, 12 Mar. 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 Parks, vacant land and the Des Plaines River all became giant snow depositories. — Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 2 Jan. 2025

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The helicopter crashed in a driveway between two warehouses, smashing into a pair of truck cargo containers while the news crew tried grabbing video footage of a serious collision involving a Metro bus that also left two people dead.

— Carlos De Loera, Los Angeles Times, 18 Sep. 2026
Opinion polls have shown United Russia, a party backed by Putin, far ahead of its rivals, although the party's approval ratings have slumped to a four-year low amid a nationwide fuel crisis and Ukrainian drone strikes on delivery warehouses.

— Sam Meredith,Anniek Bao, CNBC, 17 Sep. 2026

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In this case, the company’s coding pipeline and code repositories were identified as targets.

— J.D. Capelouto, semafor.com, 16 Sep. 2026
Yet, despite having pristine pools of first-party consumer insights, many CDPs remain passive archives—costly repositories of record that store data rather than act on it in real time.

— Pratik Bhadra, Forbes.com, 14 Sep. 2026

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