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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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Todd Engel had operated heavy machinery, like forklifts and rubber-tire loaders, around warehouses and highways in suburban Maryland for four decades.

— Yuki Noguchi, NPR, 10 Oct. 2026
And Gowanus, for now, has still retained some of its human-scale landscape of auto garages, art studios, coffee shops, dive bars, restaurants, rowhouses, warehouses, and breweries as well as a climbing gym and several concert venues.

— Kim Velsey, Curbed, 9 Oct. 2026

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The company started scanning repositories for credentials, began alerting users that their credentials were exposed, and even set up default push protections to prevent affected repositories from being duplicated.

— Alex Colon, PC Magazine, 9 Oct. 2026
The National Institutes of Health will coordinate datasets, repositories and other resources developed through more than $500 million in previous federal investment.

— Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 7 Oct. 2026

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