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 Thek had a long-standing fascination with bodies, those repositories of hope and decay, but neither show focusses much on that. — Hilton Als, New Yorker, 17 July 2026 But a modern enterprise runs tens of thousands of repositories, containers and frameworks. — Chris Brown, Forbes.com, 17 July 2026 Short for adversarial hallucination squatting, HalluSquatting is built on an LLM’s inherent tendency to hallucinate the resource identifiers hosted in repositories and registries. — Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 8 July 2026 Because a dictionary, properly understood, isn’t just a repository, but an atlas that sets the contours of the explorable world. — Literary Hub, 1 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for repository

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Images of Russian delivery warehouses and refineries ablaze have punctured the veneer of safety Moscow has tried to maintain four years into the war.

— Nick Paton Walsh, CNN Money, 31 July 2026
In the Poltava region, next to Dnipropetrovsk region in the west, a drone strike hit warehouses at a private enterprise, killing one person, said regional head Vitalii Diakivnych.

— ABC News, ABC News, 30 July 2026

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The suit alleges those employees knew the warehouse constructed on the property in 2022 would be used for fireworks storage and operations but did not enforce applicable safety and environmental requirements.

— Daniel Lempres, Sacbee.com, 25 July 2026
An adjacent staircase is packed with drawers and cupboards, helping increase the amount of useful storage.

— Adam Williams July 23, New Atlas, 24 July 2026

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