as in warehouses
a building for storing goods
a book depository
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Recent Examples of depositories
Common options include home safes, bank safe-deposit boxes and third-party bullion depositories.
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Roxanne Downer, USA Today, 28 Apr. 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
Roxanne Downer, USA Today, 28 Apr. 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for depositories
Noun
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Although Amazon has experimented with humanoids in select warehouses, and even has reportedly tested them to assist with parcel delivery, the apparel industry has largely strayed from the technology.—
Glenn Taylor,
Footwear News,
1 June 2026
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The path from niche to mainstream runs through living rooms, not warehouses, in this way of thinking.—
John Koetsier,
Forbes.com,
1 June 2026
Noun
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Six months in, a company whose chief executive has said AI writes roughly 20% to 30% of the code in some of its repositories is reportedly standardising developers on GitHub Copilot CLI.—
Janakiram MSV,
Forbes.com,
26 May 2026
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Windows in the the Hinaus gallery and the Zhytnii Market building were reportedly shattered, and the premises of the Taras Shevchenko Institute of Literature sustained damage to its library and book repositories.—
News Desk,
Artforum,
26 May 2026
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“Depositories.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/depositories. Accessed 8 Jun. 2026.
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