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 best ideas now emerge not just from Harvard Business Review or McKinsey reports but from research labs, GitHub repositories, YouTube, X, LinkedIn, expert newsletters, research papers, product announcements and many other sources. John Sviokla, Forbes.com, 24 May 2025 Many of the bad queries came from agents or analysts running routine checks for information in all the F.B.I.’s databases at once, without thinking about the additional limits on the 702 repository. Charlie Savage, New York Times, 20 May 2025 The desert is the perfect setting for this reflection, as the arid location functions as both a repository for overwhelming feelings and a reminder of our own smallness in the grand scheme of things. Lovia Gyarkye, HollywoodReporter, 15 May 2025 Space could also be an ideal backup repository for the world’s most precious information archives. Michael Wu, Forbes.com, 14 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for repository
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Noun
  • The company’s old headquarters sit directly next to Nowadays, a bar and night club that occupies a warehouse and an adjacent, tree-laden lot.
    Rachel Syme, New Yorker, 30 May 2025
  • In a further sign that Hamas, which has been controlling the flow of food and supplies, is losing its grip, a mob broke into a warehouse in central Gaza to take flour.
    The Editors, National Review, 29 May 2025
Noun
  • At the state level, Texas has established a gold depository, allowing citizens to store and trade gold within the state’s financial system.
    Sanford Mann, Forbes.com, 1 May 2025
  • Many American depository receipts (ADRs) of South African producers have done exceptionally well so far in 2025, with Sibanye Stillwater up about 50%, AngloGold Ashanti and DRDGold both up 93% to 94%, and Harmony Gold up a remarkable 113%.
    Frank Holmes, Forbes.com, 21 Apr. 2025
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  • But this also puts it in direct competition with vendors that have stronger application-layer ecosystems and more focused storage plays.
    Steve McDowell, Forbes.com, 28 May 2025
  • Box — The stock jumped nearly 11% following the cloud storage company’s earnings and revenue beat for its fiscal first quarter.
    Brian Evans, CNBC, 28 May 2025

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“Repository.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/repository. Accessed 10 Jun. 2025.

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