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 scores offer one of the most concentrated public repositories of college athlete feedback.
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Daniel Libit, Sportico.com, 14 Apr. 2026
Rather like Indian gurus in nineteen-sixties hippie culture, the Jews were assumed to be repositories of every kind of mystical and human elevation.
—Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2026
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.
—Jessica Klein, PC Magazine, 11 Apr. 2026
More recently, these systems are using artificial intelligence to create a vast, searchable database that can be integrated with other law enforcement data repositories.
—Jess Reia, The Conversation, 27 Mar. 2026
Between March 3 and March 9, cybersecurity companies Aikido, StepSecurity and Socket traced GlassWorm activity across hundreds of repositories and extensions.
—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
Daniel Libit, Sportico.com, 14 Apr. 2026
Rather like Indian gurus in nineteen-sixties hippie culture, the Jews were assumed to be repositories of every kind of mystical and human elevation.
—Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2026
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.
—Jessica Klein, PC Magazine, 11 Apr. 2026
More recently, these systems are using artificial intelligence to create a vast, searchable database that can be integrated with other law enforcement data repositories.
—Jess Reia, The Conversation, 27 Mar. 2026
Between March 3 and March 9, cybersecurity companies Aikido, StepSecurity and Socket traced GlassWorm activity across hundreds of repositories and extensions.
—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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for repositories
Noun
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Julie Pearson Clark, a Marietta resident, said the idea of converting warehouses into detention facilities raises serious questions.—
Zachary Bynum,
CBS News,
27 Apr. 2026
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In Little River, a neighborhood home to warehouses, the Swerdlow Group is expected to close on two properties as part of a project that will bring affordable housing to the area.—
Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
24 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Common options include home safes, bank safe-deposit boxes and third-party bullion depositories.—
Roxanne Downer,
USA Today,
28 Apr. 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 29 Apr. 2026.
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