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depots

noun

plural of depot

as in warehouses

a building for storing goods a distribution depot for auto parts

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as in armories

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 depots The city owns 14,900 parcels across the five boroughs, including municipal rooftops, parking lots, and fleet depots, that can be turned into hubs of clean energy production. — Mark Levine, New York Daily News, 20 Sep. 2026 The work also includes setting up charging depots and cleaning and maintenance hubs for the vehicles. — Charlotte Observer, 19 Sep. 2026 By 2024, they were regularly being used to strike Russian airfields, ammunition depots and oil refineries. — Aidan Stretch, CBS News, 8 Sep. 2026 Russian oil depots set ablaze In Russia, a large-scale Ukrainian drone strike hit the Black Sea resort city of Sochi and the nearby district of Sirius, regional officials said Friday. — Samya Kullab, Los Angeles Times, 4 Sep. 2026 Moscow’s forces have recently hit other food storage depots, leaving some supermarket shelves empty. — ABC News, 2 Sep. 2026 And their shock turned to anger when the United States bombed Iranian water storage facilities and Israel struck Iranian oil depots. — Marc Lynch, Foreign Affairs, 18 Aug. 2026 Criminals have studied the lengthy and predictable stop times as the trains approach depots, a prime time to strike. — Kiel Porter, Fortune, 17 Aug. 2026

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Kyiv argued the warehouses held dual-use goods, and that hitting them would impose an immediate cost on ordinary Russians, who would pressure the Kremlin to end the war.

— Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 26 Sep. 2026
Finally, Costco opened 12 new warehouses in the quarter, or 11 when excluding a relocation in Taiwan.

— Zev Fima, CNBC, 25 Sep. 2026

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The work is part of a larger effort statewide to update the National Guard’s armories, as renovations in recent years have either been completed or are planned at many readiness centers, including those in Brainerd, New Ulm, Marshall, Moorhead and Fergus Falls.

— Elliot Mann, Twin Cities, 29 May 2026
Israel and Hezbollah agreed to a ceasefire a year ago, but Israel — which says the group has been rebuilding its armories, and that Lebanon is failing in its commitment to disarm it — has ramped up attacks against Hezbollah in recent days.

— Tom Chivers, semafor.com, 24 Nov. 2025

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In this case, the company’s coding pipeline and code repositories were identified as targets.

— J.D. Capelouto, semafor.com, 16 Sep. 2026
Yet, despite having pristine pools of first-party consumer insights, many CDPs remain passive archives—costly repositories of record that store data rather than act on it in real time.

— Pratik Bhadra, Forbes.com, 14 Sep. 2026

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Its ability to protect the most vulnerable, those who have no army or arsenals, has never been so weak.

— Alejandra Jaramillo, CNN Money, 22 Sep. 2026
After decades of disarmament, Russia, China, France, and several other nuclear powers are rapidly expanding their arsenals, while Germany, South Korea, Japan, and others are considering developing their own programs.

— Scott W. Stern, The Atlantic, 17 Sep. 2026

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