depots

plural of depot
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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 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 Images from August analyzed by Radio Liberty show ammunition depots at the site which covered more than two square kilometers. Brendan Cole, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Sep. 2025 The local council’s facilities across the town, including libraries, information centers and depots, would remain closed until further notice, Nicholas added. Reuters, CNN Money, 26 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for depots
Noun
  • Veldwijk said supplies are currently stuck in warehouses in Egypt and in Jordan.
    Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Raluca Ragab, partner at Eurazeo, said that kind of technology could rapidly change the way warehouses operate across industries.
    Meghan Hall, Sourcing Journal, 15 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Our current ideas about archives as these infinite repositories feel like a bit of a fiction.
    Lauren Michele Jackson, New Yorker, 5 Oct. 2025
  • In the mid 2000s, Gates was working as an arts administrator at the University of Chicago, while also buying derelict buildings on the city’s South Side and turning them into artists’ studios or repositories for his collections of books, records, and photographic slides.
    Elizabeth Cantrell, Travel + Leisure, 26 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • To begin, Washington should take up Putin’s suggestion to maintain the existing caps on their respective nuclear arsenals, which will otherwise be lifted when the New START treaty expires.
    MARIANO-FLORENTINO CUÉLLAR, Foreign Affairs, 25 Sep. 2025
  • One key weapon in most companies’ arsenals in disputes with affiliates is the NFL.
    Dade Hayes, Deadline, 23 Sep. 2025

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“Depots.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/depots. Accessed 18 Oct. 2025.

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