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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 move followed service charge increases at private inland container depots (ICDs) near the port.
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Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 15 Oct. 2025
For decades, major military powers and humanitarian agencies have established forward bases and supply depots from which materials can be quickly deployed.
—David Szondy
october 13, New Atlas, 13 Oct. 2025
The company told IndyStar that to serve its customers and provide a variety of schedule options for employees, depots operate around the clock.
—Jade Jackson, IndyStar, 8 Oct. 2025
Whereas Black Ops 6 relished in the texture of its period setting, giving players maps ranging from a warlord’s villa filled with luxury cars or dilapidated bus depots overgrown with foliage, BLOPS 7 has a superficial glossiness to each of its levels.
—Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 7 Oct. 2025
According to an investigative report compiled by the Middle East Forum, using on-the-ground sources embedded in Iranian military installations across Syria since 2018, Iran has not only constructed underground tunnels and weapons depots for its disposal.
—Caitlin McFall, FOXNews.com, 3 Oct. 2025
In addition to plans for fuel depots in orbit, which SpaceX hopes to use to service missions with the Starship and Superheavy, OOR is also being investigated for the sake of satellite refueling.
—Matthew S Williams, Interesting Engineering, 26 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
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
Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 15 Oct. 2025
For decades, major military powers and humanitarian agencies have established forward bases and supply depots from which materials can be quickly deployed.
—David Szondy
october 13, New Atlas, 13 Oct. 2025
The company told IndyStar that to serve its customers and provide a variety of schedule options for employees, depots operate around the clock.
—Jade Jackson, IndyStar, 8 Oct. 2025
Whereas Black Ops 6 relished in the texture of its period setting, giving players maps ranging from a warlord’s villa filled with luxury cars or dilapidated bus depots overgrown with foliage, BLOPS 7 has a superficial glossiness to each of its levels.
—Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 7 Oct. 2025
According to an investigative report compiled by the Middle East Forum, using on-the-ground sources embedded in Iranian military installations across Syria since 2018, Iran has not only constructed underground tunnels and weapons depots for its disposal.
—Caitlin McFall, FOXNews.com, 3 Oct. 2025
In addition to plans for fuel depots in orbit, which SpaceX hopes to use to service missions with the Starship and Superheavy, OOR is also being investigated for the sake of satellite refueling.
—Matthew S Williams, Interesting Engineering, 26 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
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for depots
Noun
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The agency, now responsible for foreign aid distribution following the closure of USAID earlier this year, has prepositioned emergency supplies in six global warehouses to support affected communities.—
Hannah Parry,
MSNBC Newsweek,
27 Oct. 2025
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How many Costco warehouses are in Wisconsin?—
Cailey Gleeson,
jsonline.com,
27 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Even if their small military facilities, colloquially known as armories, had physically centralized fitness resources and equipment, many would be unable to take advantage of them.—
Davis Winkie,
USA Today,
23 Oct. 2025
Noun
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How the agent works Aardvark continuously monitors source code repositories, analyzing commits, scanning for vulnerabilities, and prioritizing which ones matter most.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
30 Oct. 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
Noun
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Adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on September 10, 1996, and opened for signature later that month, the treaty seeks to halt the development of new nuclear weapons and limit the advancement of existing arsenals.—
Joshua Rhett Miller,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 Oct. 2025
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China, Russia and the United States are expanding and upgrading their arsenals with new weapons and more of them.—
Geoff Brumfiel,
NPR,
24 Oct. 2025
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“Depots.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/depots. Accessed 6 Nov. 2025.
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