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depositories

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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 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

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Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps claimed to have destroyed several weapons-support warehouses, a satellite communications center, and a US forces building in a missile and drone attack on Bahrain’s Juffair military base today.

— Helen Regan, CNN Money, 14 July 2026
As with the warehouses, the grounds at Fort Bliss were never designed to serve as the site of long-term detention.

— Jonathan Blitzer, New Yorker, 13 July 2026

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In the normal course of performing day-to-day activities, these assistants and agents routinely pull code and other resources from repositories and registries.

— Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 8 July 2026
Human resource systems, learning platforms, credential repositories, and talent management tools generate continuous streams of data across the enterprise.

— Michael Edmondson, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026

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