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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The Russian edition of Forbes cited preliminary estimates suggesting Wildberries lost up to 9% of its warehouse space and that restoring that capacity might cost the company as much as 33 billion rubles ($421 million).

— Nathan Hodge, CNN Money, 23 July 2026
The third and final cause of action asserted by RCA sought injunctive relief against the Hus to basically stop them from continuing to complain about the warehouses.

— Jay Adkisson, Forbes.com, 23 July 2026

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According to Linda Debassige, Grand Council Chief of the Anishinabek Nation in Ontario, more than 30 homes were lost, along with the administration office, school, community center, storage buildings, vehicles and essential community equipment.

— Alessandra Freitas, CNN Money, 18 July 2026
The downside is that a 500-kW laser system would require a standard 40-foot shipping container just to house the weapon, its advanced cooling system, and its massive power storage banks.

— David Szondy July 16, New Atlas, 17 July 2026

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