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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
In decades gone by, this was a working grain mill and silo, towering 112 feet above the train depot across the tracks with the small downtown just beyond.
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Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 3 Apr. 2026
Will Home depot be open on Easter?
—Jalen Williams, Freep.com, 2 Apr. 2026
In Kuwait, local media reported that fuel depots of the Kuwait International Airport were set on fire on Wednesday following an attack by an Iranian drone, causing significant damage.
—Npr Staff, NPR, 2 Apr. 2026
Advertisement Israel has bombed oil depots in Tehran, shrouding the city in toxic black smoke, and attacked Iran’s South Pars gas field.
—Miranda Jeyaretnam, Time, 1 Apr. 2026
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Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 3 Apr. 2026
Will Home depot be open on Easter?
—Jalen Williams, Freep.com, 2 Apr. 2026
In Kuwait, local media reported that fuel depots of the Kuwait International Airport were set on fire on Wednesday following an attack by an Iranian drone, causing significant damage.
—Npr Staff, NPR, 2 Apr. 2026
Advertisement Israel has bombed oil depots in Tehran, shrouding the city in toxic black smoke, and attacked Iran’s South Pars gas field.
—Miranda Jeyaretnam, Time, 1 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for depot
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The 985-unit Collection at Cactus will be in the heart of Otay Mesa, mainly home to warehouses and customs brokers involved in international trade, but increasingly becoming a spot for less expensive housing.—
Phillip Molnar,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
16 Apr. 2026
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But Commissioner Danielle Cohen Higgins, who represents parts of South Miami-Dade, said the offers aren’t adequate because the warehouse workers shouldn’t have to drive to far-off Amazon facilities to keep their jobs.—
Douglas Hanks,
Miami Herald,
16 Apr. 2026
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The Islamic Republic of Iran took the lives of two men convicted of trying to storm a military facility and access an armory in January, the Mizan news outlet of Iran's judiciary indicated on Sunday, according to Reuters.—
Alex Nitzberg,
FOXNews.com,
6 Apr. 2026
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Just the gas of driving to the armory and back twice would take a bite out of that.—
Edward Lotterman,
Twin Cities,
22 Mar. 2026
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Malware deployed via seemingly innocent GitHub repositories and embedded in blockchains, where the malware will be stored forever (and increasingly difficult to root out as the chains grow), makes for an almost unstoppable technology.—
Jessica Klein,
PC Magazine,
11 Apr. 2026
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In the summer of 2025, before killing Direct File, the federal government published most of the program’s source code on GitHub, an online repository.—
Binyamin Appelbaum,
Mercury News,
10 Apr. 2026
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“Depot.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/depot. Accessed 17 Apr. 2026.
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