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as in warehouse
a building for storing goods
a distribution depot for auto parts
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as in armory
a place where military arms are stored
the guns and ammunition were stored in a depot in Concord
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Recent Examples of depot
Built in the Mission Revival architecture style, it was constructed to serve railroad passengers arriving at Tucson's downtown train depot.
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Michael Salerno, AZCentral.com, 24 Sep. 2025
Officials chose not to shoot down the drones because the risk was too great with the airport being full of passengers, planes on the runways and the nearby fuel depots, Jespersen added.
—Freddie Clayton, NBC news, 23 Sep. 2025
At Trevor’s at the Tracks, even before the first taste, the setting in the 1894 San Juan Capistrano depot, with its mortar arches and Craftsman architecture, creates the atmosphere.
—Greg Mellen, Oc Register, 19 Sep. 2025
Marguerite Young’s cult novel Miss MacIntosh, My Darling springs from the supposedly mundane diners and bus depots of Young’s native Indiana, but eschews any stable sense of reality.
—David Schurman Wallace, The New York Review of Books, 18 Sep. 2025
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Michael Salerno, AZCentral.com, 24 Sep. 2025
Officials chose not to shoot down the drones because the risk was too great with the airport being full of passengers, planes on the runways and the nearby fuel depots, Jespersen added.
—Freddie Clayton, NBC news, 23 Sep. 2025
At Trevor’s at the Tracks, even before the first taste, the setting in the 1894 San Juan Capistrano depot, with its mortar arches and Craftsman architecture, creates the atmosphere.
—Greg Mellen, Oc Register, 19 Sep. 2025
Marguerite Young’s cult novel Miss MacIntosh, My Darling springs from the supposedly mundane diners and bus depots of Young’s native Indiana, but eschews any stable sense of reality.
—David Schurman Wallace, The New York Review of Books, 18 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for depot
Noun
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Stepping foot into a Costco warehouse can be equal parts exhilarating and overwhelming.—
Kait Hanson,
Southern Living,
4 Oct. 2025
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The company cultivates a variety of fruits and vegetables at its first commercial vertical farm, located in a warehouse in Avondale.—
Sasha Hupka,
AZCentral.com,
3 Oct. 2025
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Minnesota: Vikings were Norse warriors with advanced armory and weaponry.—
Steven Louis Goldstein,
New York Times,
8 Sep. 2025
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What to Do See the Sight of John Brown's Raid Near the rivers sits the original armory guard house where in 1859, abolitionist John Brown led a legendary but ultimately unsuccessful slave revolt.—
Tara Massouleh McCay,
Southern Living,
29 Aug. 2025
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Our current ideas about archives as these infinite repositories feel like a bit of a fiction.—
Lauren Michele Jackson,
New Yorker,
5 Oct. 2025
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The internet has become a repository of LGBTQ+-themed Miss Honey memes, who has been noted as a gay icon on Reddit threads, X (formerly Twitter) posts and Tumblr reblogs.—
Mathew Rodriguez,
Them.,
1 Oct. 2025
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“Depot.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/depot. Accessed 9 Oct. 2025.
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