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
Our current ideas about archives as these infinite repositories feel like a bit of a fiction.
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Lauren Michele Jackson, New Yorker, 5 Oct. 2025
In the mid 2000s, Gates was working as an arts administrator at the University of Chicago, while also buying derelict buildings on the city’s South Side and turning them into artists’ studios or repositories for his collections of books, records, and photographic slides.
—Elizabeth Cantrell, Travel + Leisure, 26 Sep. 2025
Building public repositories of data, algorithms, and expertise can help ensure that the foundations of AI are not controlled by a handful of corporations.
—Vilas Dhar, Time, 25 Sep. 2025
This enables enterprises to create secure, air-gapped data and model repositories without modifying existing code, addressing critical concerns about data leakage while supporting advanced deployment scenarios with frameworks like vLLM.
—Steve McDowell, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
The files also include packaging repositories and operational runbooks that show how China’s Great Firewall is built and maintained.
—Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 15 Sep. 2025
The attack relies on ClickFix tactics, where victims searching for Mac troubleshooting help are lured to fake websites or GitHub repositories.
—Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 12 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
Lauren Michele Jackson, New Yorker, 5 Oct. 2025
In the mid 2000s, Gates was working as an arts administrator at the University of Chicago, while also buying derelict buildings on the city’s South Side and turning them into artists’ studios or repositories for his collections of books, records, and photographic slides.
—Elizabeth Cantrell, Travel + Leisure, 26 Sep. 2025
Building public repositories of data, algorithms, and expertise can help ensure that the foundations of AI are not controlled by a handful of corporations.
—Vilas Dhar, Time, 25 Sep. 2025
This enables enterprises to create secure, air-gapped data and model repositories without modifying existing code, addressing critical concerns about data leakage while supporting advanced deployment scenarios with frameworks like vLLM.
—Steve McDowell, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
The files also include packaging repositories and operational runbooks that show how China’s Great Firewall is built and maintained.
—Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 15 Sep. 2025
The attack relies on ClickFix tactics, where victims searching for Mac troubleshooting help are lured to fake websites or GitHub repositories.
—Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 12 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for repositories
Noun
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There is actually quite a bit of science and experimentation that goes into storing barrels in warehouses, believe it or not.—
Melinda Salchert,
Southern Living,
2 Oct. 2025
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As the population increased, apartments, shopping centers, offices and warehouses replaced many of the orange groves and forests that once surrounded Orlando.—
Gisela Salomon,
Fortune,
2 Oct. 2025
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The rest is spread between depositories in West Point, Denver, and a vault 80 feet (24 meters) below the Fed’s building in lower Manhattan.—
Jason Ma,
Fortune,
29 Sep. 2025
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“Repositories.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/repositories. Accessed 7 Oct. 2025.
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