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depots

noun

plural of depot
1
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 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 Jesse Lazarus, the MTA’s rolling-stock czar, told the agency’s board in June that 131 of those buses had been delivered to date, in the form of new long-distance coach buses operating out of the Staten Island depots. — Evan Simko-Bednarski, New York Daily News, 16 Aug. 2026 Disruptive use of a public building or facility, including parks, train depots or train platforms, could result in costs as high as $500 per day, as well. — Steve Zalusky, Chicago Tribune, 7 Aug. 2026
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  1. warehouses
  2. armories
  3. repositories
  4. arsenals
Noun
  • The helicopter crashed in a driveway between two warehouses, smashing into a pair of truck cargo containers while the news crew tried grabbing video footage of a serious collision involving a Metro bus that also left two people dead.
    — Carlos De Loera, Los Angeles Times, 18 Sep. 2026
  • Opinion polls have shown United Russia, a party backed by Putin, far ahead of its rivals, although the party's approval ratings have slumped to a four-year low amid a nationwide fuel crisis and Ukrainian drone strikes on delivery warehouses.
    — Sam Meredith,Anniek Bao, CNBC, 17 Sep. 2026
Definition of warehouses
Noun
  • 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
Definition of armories
Noun
  • 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
Definition of repositories
Noun
  • Among the most destructive munitions in Western military arsenals, an MK-84 explosion sends metal fragments in every direction for thousands of feet, can rip through metal and thick concrete, and often creates large craters in the earth.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 16 Sep. 2026
  • Even on less dazzling days, Nola and Painter have some positives to lean on in their arsenals.
    — Charlotte Varnes, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2026
Definition of arsenals

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“Depots.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/depots. Accessed 22 Sep. 2026.

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