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
Those crawlers copy webpage content at scale, then AI companies filter and package it into training datasets, the vast repositories that LLMs learn from.
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Craig S. Smith, Forbes.com, 21 Jan. 2026
Open-source repositories on platforms such as GitHub allow newcomers to demonstrate applied skills including work on AI security, bias mitigation, and deepfake detection.
—IEEE Spectrum, 15 Jan. 2026
Objects—an old writing desk, a painting, an ice pick—become repositories for intimacies.
—The New Yorker, New Yorker, 14 Jan. 2026
Media industry newsletters and the tabloids have become repositories for unattributed comments from CBS News insiders who are unhappy with the changes.
—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
Craig S. Smith, Forbes.com, 21 Jan. 2026
Open-source repositories on platforms such as GitHub allow newcomers to demonstrate applied skills including work on AI security, bias mitigation, and deepfake detection.
—IEEE Spectrum, 15 Jan. 2026
Objects—an old writing desk, a painting, an ice pick—become repositories for intimacies.
—The New Yorker, New Yorker, 14 Jan. 2026
Media industry newsletters and the tabloids have become repositories for unattributed comments from CBS News insiders who are unhappy with the changes.
—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
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 26 Jan. 2026.
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