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
Media industry newsletters and the tabloids have become repositories for unattributed comments from CBS News insiders who are unhappy with the changes.
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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
Its report recommended burying the detritus in deep underground repositories (as opposed to the long-since-abandoned notion of blasting it into low-Earth orbit).
—Bob Woods, CNBC, 9 Nov. 2025
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
Our current ideas about archives as these infinite repositories feel like a bit of a fiction.
—Lauren Michele Jackson, New Yorker, 5 Oct. 2025
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
Its report recommended burying the detritus in deep underground repositories (as opposed to the long-since-abandoned notion of blasting it into low-Earth orbit).
—Bob Woods, CNBC, 9 Nov. 2025
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
Our current ideas about archives as these infinite repositories feel like a bit of a fiction.
—Lauren Michele Jackson, New Yorker, 5 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for repositories
Noun
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Hiring by retailers, warehouses and tourism firms helped limit any job losses in South Florida in November as companies prepared for the winter holidays and start of the traditional tourism season.—
Tom Hudson,
Miami Herald,
8 Jan. 2026
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The true mainstream adoption wave — warehouses, micro-factories, home services—hits in 2027 as platforms stabilize.—
Allie Garfinkle,
Fortune,
8 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Parks, vacant land and the Des Plaines River all became giant snow depositories.—
Kori Rumore,
Chicago Tribune,
2 Jan. 2026
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The oil depositories of the Persian Gulf remain vital to the global economy.—
Ray Takeyh,
Foreign Affairs,
4 Dec. 2025
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“Repositories.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/repositories. Accessed 16 Jan. 2026.
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