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a building for storing goods
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Recent Examples of repositories
Malware deployed via seemingly innocent GitHub repositories and embedded in blockchains, where the malware will be stored forever (and increasingly difficult to root out as the chains grow), makes for an almost unstoppable technology.
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Jessica Klein, PC Magazine, 11 Apr. 2026
The stands serve as sites of passing assembly—roadside water coolers—and repositories of gossip and news.
—Nathan Heller, New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2026
The vehicle information that’s captured is typically stored in the cloud, creating a massive web of data repositories.
—Jess Reia, The Conversation, 27 Mar. 2026
The infections spanned JavaScript, TypeScript and Python repositories.
—Deni Ellis Béchard, Scientific American, 21 Mar. 2026
Many auto parts places will pour the contents into their giant waste-oil repositories, then give you back your bucket.
—Andrew P. Collins, The Drive, 11 Mar. 2026
But if access can be secured and the computational infrastructure scaled to match, such efforts could transform natural history museums from static repositories into dynamic digital biomes.
—IEEE Spectrum, 5 Mar. 2026
This can influence the long-term stability of nuclear waste repositories.
—Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 4 Mar. 2026
And all centralized repositories of data that connect the identities and real-life locations of individuals, if exposed to ICE, will become tools of ethnic cleansing.
—Sarah Jeong, The Verge, 1 Mar. 2026
Jessica Klein, PC Magazine, 11 Apr. 2026
The stands serve as sites of passing assembly—roadside water coolers—and repositories of gossip and news.
—Nathan Heller, New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2026
The vehicle information that’s captured is typically stored in the cloud, creating a massive web of data repositories.
—Jess Reia, The Conversation, 27 Mar. 2026
The infections spanned JavaScript, TypeScript and Python repositories.
—Deni Ellis Béchard, Scientific American, 21 Mar. 2026
Many auto parts places will pour the contents into their giant waste-oil repositories, then give you back your bucket.
—Andrew P. Collins, The Drive, 11 Mar. 2026
But if access can be secured and the computational infrastructure scaled to match, such efforts could transform natural history museums from static repositories into dynamic digital biomes.
—IEEE Spectrum, 5 Mar. 2026
This can influence the long-term stability of nuclear waste repositories.
—Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 4 Mar. 2026
And all centralized repositories of data that connect the identities and real-life locations of individuals, if exposed to ICE, will become tools of ethnic cleansing.
—Sarah Jeong, The Verge, 1 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for repositories
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That flood of money has also allowed ICE to hire thousands of agents and expand the number of detention center beds, even moving to purchase warehouses to house more detainees.—
Sam Gringlas,
NPR,
13 Apr. 2026
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The movement jumped to Apple retail locations, Trader Joe’s, Amazon warehouses, and REI.—
Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
10 Apr. 2026
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Markups apply to the metals themselves, while IRA fees cover account setup, administration and storage through third-party custodians and depositories.—
Nick Perry,
USA Today,
24 Mar. 2026
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Professional depositories typically conduct routine audits performed by third-party verification firms.—
Angelica Leicht,
CBS News,
12 Mar. 2026
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“Repositories.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/repositories. Accessed 15 Apr. 2026.
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