Thesaurus results for REPOSITORY

repository

noun

ri-ˈpä-zə-ˌtȯr-ē

Definition of repository

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 radioactive waste at San Onofre is stored in more than 120 stainless steel canisters at the now-shuttered generation station, known as SONGS, because the federal government has yet to find a permanent repository to send it. — Rob Nikolewski, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Aug. 2026 Finland’s nuclear safety regulator, STUK, issued a favorable safety review on August 4 for a deep geological repository located in Olkiluoto. — Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 5 Aug. 2026 This line of attack came from Mythos reasoning that the repository maintainer could be an AI coding agent such as Claude Code. — Jeremy Hsu, ArsTechnica, 5 Aug. 2026 Artist Michelle Grabner will donate more than 2,000 artworks to the John Michael Kohler Arts Center (JMKAC) in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, making the institution the most comprehensive repository of her work. — Maximilíano Durón, ARTnews.com, 3 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for repository

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The attack damaged a wall of a Wildberries warehouse in the Tver region north of Moscow, the region’s acting governor Vitaly Korolyov said.

— ABC News, ABC News, 14 Aug. 2026
Original brick walls and soaring warehouse windows meet contemporary metal fixtures that just so happen to be trendy, but are not entirely devoid of the past.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 13 Aug. 2026

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The device, called a programmable dynamic memtransistor (PDM), combines the memory function of a storage device with the computing function of a transistor.

— Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 8 Aug. 2026
Verve Culture’s Mahjong set pairs handmade wooden tiles with a mango wood storage box that feels worlds away from the plastic versions many of us grew up with.

— Nicole Kliest, Vogue, 8 Aug. 2026

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