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
The attack relies on ClickFix tactics, where victims searching for Mac troubleshooting help are lured to fake websites or GitHub repositories.
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Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 12 Sep. 2025
Proactive Operational Intelligence A technical paper by Enterprise Knowledge demonstrates how KGs contextualize unstructured inputs, linking across document repositories and streamlining expert insight extraction.
—Daniel Fallmann, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
Online data repositories that contain gender data have been placed under review.
—Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 19 Aug. 2025
This approach ensures that an organization’s data privacy and security requirements are consistently met through lifecycle management, where data repositories are continuously organized, even as new data is added.
—Jesse Todd, Forbes, 8 Jan. 2025
The year’s mounting censorship controversies ultimately—and inevitably—created a crisis of faith at these institutions, which purportedly exist as repositories of history.
—Tessa Solomon, ARTnews.com, 23 Dec. 2024
Unlike other genetic data repositories, such as the UK Biobank, the MVP database stands out due to its diversity and scale.
—Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 20 Dec. 2024
That could help unlock the deep repositories of agricultural know-how shared by India’s farmers, says Rikin Gandhi, CEO of Digital Green, an international nonprofit that uses technology to help smallholders, or owners of small farms.
—IEEE Spectrum, 10 Dec. 2024
Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 12 Sep. 2025
Proactive Operational Intelligence A technical paper by Enterprise Knowledge demonstrates how KGs contextualize unstructured inputs, linking across document repositories and streamlining expert insight extraction.
—Daniel Fallmann, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
Online data repositories that contain gender data have been placed under review.
—Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 19 Aug. 2025
This approach ensures that an organization’s data privacy and security requirements are consistently met through lifecycle management, where data repositories are continuously organized, even as new data is added.
—Jesse Todd, Forbes, 8 Jan. 2025
The year’s mounting censorship controversies ultimately—and inevitably—created a crisis of faith at these institutions, which purportedly exist as repositories of history.
—Tessa Solomon, ARTnews.com, 23 Dec. 2024
Unlike other genetic data repositories, such as the UK Biobank, the MVP database stands out due to its diversity and scale.
—Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 20 Dec. 2024
That could help unlock the deep repositories of agricultural know-how shared by India’s farmers, says Rikin Gandhi, CEO of Digital Green, an international nonprofit that uses technology to help smallholders, or owners of small farms.
—IEEE Spectrum, 10 Dec. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for repositories
warehouses
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Traditional data lakes can store raw data at scale but lack quality controls, while warehouses enforce structure but struggle with unstructured or fast changing data.—
Matthew Kayser,
USA Today,
12 Sep. 2025
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More than 95 percent of Target’s net sales volume was fulfilled by stores rather than warehouses, as of earlier this year.—
Dan Gingiss,
Forbes.com,
11 Sep. 2025
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“Repositories.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/repositories. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.
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