as in warehouses
a building for storing goods
nurses going back and forth to the medication repository
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Recent Examples of repositories
Large, centralized repositories of sensitive data become attractive targets.
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Tony Bradley, Forbes.com, 26 Jan. 2026
Open-source repositories on platforms such as GitHub allow newcomers to demonstrate applied skills including work on AI security, bias mitigation, and deepfake detection.
—IEEE Spectrum, 15 Jan. 2026
Objects—an old writing desk, a painting, an ice pick—become repositories for intimacies.
—The New Yorker, New Yorker, 14 Jan. 2026
Media industry newsletters and the tabloids have become repositories for unattributed comments from CBS News insiders who are unhappy with the changes.
—Los Angeles Times, 9 Jan. 2026
Visitors cannot enter the repositories, but walkways along the exterior allow close views of the austere wooden structures and their distinctive clay-and-charcoal foundations.
—Navya Verma, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 Jan. 2026
Online repositories can make the works fully available.
—Victoria Edel, PEOPLE, 2 Jan. 2026
Though Thoreau had long desired and moved toward such a breakdown of the fact/poetry binary, his chart and list making remained largely repositories of facts until 1860.
—Literary Hub, 17 Dec. 2025
For example, according to Wiz, a cloud security provider, their research reveals that 65% of the most popular AI companies are accidentally leaking highly sensitive data, such as API keys, tokens, and hardcoded credentials, in their public GitHub repositories.
—PC Magazine, 14 Nov. 2025
Tony Bradley, Forbes.com, 26 Jan. 2026
Open-source repositories on platforms such as GitHub allow newcomers to demonstrate applied skills including work on AI security, bias mitigation, and deepfake detection.
—IEEE Spectrum, 15 Jan. 2026
Objects—an old writing desk, a painting, an ice pick—become repositories for intimacies.
—The New Yorker, New Yorker, 14 Jan. 2026
Media industry newsletters and the tabloids have become repositories for unattributed comments from CBS News insiders who are unhappy with the changes.
—Los Angeles Times, 9 Jan. 2026
Visitors cannot enter the repositories, but walkways along the exterior allow close views of the austere wooden structures and their distinctive clay-and-charcoal foundations.
—Navya Verma, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 Jan. 2026
Online repositories can make the works fully available.
—Victoria Edel, PEOPLE, 2 Jan. 2026
Though Thoreau had long desired and moved toward such a breakdown of the fact/poetry binary, his chart and list making remained largely repositories of facts until 1860.
—Literary Hub, 17 Dec. 2025
For example, according to Wiz, a cloud security provider, their research reveals that 65% of the most popular AI companies are accidentally leaking highly sensitive data, such as API keys, tokens, and hardcoded credentials, in their public GitHub repositories.
—PC Magazine, 14 Nov. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for repositories
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Georgia Power is among several electric companies in the South building new natural gas plants to meet the unprecedented electricity demand for data centers, warehouses packed with servers that power artificial intelligence and our digital lives.—
Kristi Swartz,
AJC.com,
26 Jan. 2026
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The company employs over 200 workers in its warehouses.—
Steve Banker,
Forbes.com,
26 Jan. 2026
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Retirees who opt for gold bars often use insured third-party depositories or bank safe deposit boxes rather than home storage, which adds annual costs but also reduces theft risk and simplifies estate planning, both of which are important considerations.—
Angelica Leicht,
CBS News,
30 Jan. 2026
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Parks, vacant land and the Des Plaines River all became giant snow depositories.—
Kori Rumore,
Chicago Tribune,
2 Jan. 2026
Cite this Entry
“Repositories.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/repositories. Accessed 9 Feb. 2026.
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