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 With work on the Yucca Mountain repository halted during the Obama administration, the federal government has yet to find a location. Rob Nikolewski, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Oct. 2025 Rezzolla and Ecker's research is published in a on the pre-print paper repository arXiv. Keith Cooper, Space.com, 24 Oct. 2025 The group spent the next week feverishly uploading data and scientific protocols to an online repository and transferring access to park staff whose jobs seemed more secure. Gloria Liu, Outside Online, 22 Oct. 2025 This novel is a repository for those pressing questions. Literary Hub, 21 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for repository
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Noun
  • Like a broker, Spring Creek purchases product from farmers and takes ownership of the product in the food hub's warehouse.
    Cristina LaRue, Arkansas Online, 9 Nov. 2025
  • Former warehouses house experimental galleries and interactive installations, while street art and local pop-ups provide endless backdrops for your Instagram photos.
    Staff Author, Southern Living, 9 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • Until a few weeks ago, however, the Chiefs’ outpost inside SubTropolis flew largely under the radar, serving primarily as a depository for historical documents, films, trophies, uniforms and photos.
    Blair Kerkhoff, Kansas City Star, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Consumer advocates and policymakers have long been concerned with banking deserts – areas where residents have no access to depository institutions and must rely on more expensive, less secure services like check cashers.
    Andrea Riquier, USA Today, 8 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • So, pack your hiking boots, your binoculars, and maybe a little extra phone storage for the photos you’re bound to take.
    Michael Cappetta, Travel + Leisure, 9 Nov. 2025
  • Sakuu described this as an unprecedented milestone in battery viability for a fully dry process, placing its capabilities at the forefront of commercial lithium-ion batteries used in electric vehicles (EVs) and mass energy storage.
    Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 9 Nov. 2025

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“Repository.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/repository. Accessed 24 Nov. 2025.

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