Definition of repositorynext
as in warehouse
a building for storing goods nurses going back and forth to the medication repository

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Recent Examples of repository The scores offer one of the most concentrated public repositories of college athlete feedback. 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 In the summer of 2025, before killing Direct File, the federal government published most of the program’s source code on GitHub, an online repository. Binyamin Appelbaum, Mercury News, 10 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for repository
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Noun
  • The results are already visible in logistics, manufacturing, and autonomous systems—warehouse robots navigating crowded spaces with fewer collisions, autonomous vehicles rehearsing edge cases before encountering them on the road.
    Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 23 Apr. 2026
  • Tucked amid this bustle are modern cafés and excellent restaurants in warehouse-like spaces, French-style bakeries, and chic linen clothing stores.
    Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • The Middle East remains the world’s key depository of both—aside from the US.
    Jim Edwards, Fortune, 29 Apr. 2026
  • Common options include home safes, bank safe-deposit boxes and third-party bullion depositories.
    Roxanne Downer, USA Today, 28 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Since local rain accounts for 40% of the region’s drinking water supply, folks from Los Angeles County Public Works were busy making sure it got captured and sunk into reservoirs and groundwater basins as non-rainy day storage.
    Steve Scauzillo, Daily News, 24 Apr. 2026
  • It’s also not being caused exclusively by ongoing RAM and shortage storages—new MacBook Pros with 128GB of RAM and large SSDs will arrive within two or three weeks of being ordered.
    Andrew Cunningham, ArsTechnica, 23 Apr. 2026

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“Repository.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/repository. Accessed 1 May. 2026.

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