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 internet has become a repository of LGBTQ+-themed Miss Honey memes, who has been noted as a gay icon on Reddit threads, X (formerly Twitter) posts and Tumblr reblogs. Mathew Rodriguez, Them., 1 Oct. 2025 Many communities choose a historic building to become the repository of the city’s historical treasures. Del Mar Historical Society, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Sep. 2025 In the mid 2000s, Gates was working as an arts administrator at the University of Chicago, while also buying derelict buildings on the city’s South Side and turning them into artists’ studios or repositories for his collections of books, records, and photographic slides. Elizabeth Cantrell, Travel + Leisure, 26 Sep. 2025 Building public repositories of data, algorithms, and expertise can help ensure that the foundations of AI are not controlled by a handful of corporations. Vilas Dhar, Time, 25 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for repository
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Noun
  • In northern Michigan, Dana Tuller is starting her third job as a warehouse sorter.
    Nushrat Rahman, Freep.com, 27 Oct. 2025
  • They are now being held indefinitely in warehouses in Belgium as the United States has discontinued many of its foreign assistance programs.
    Lauren Kent, CNN Money, 26 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • The rest is spread between depositories in West Point, Denver, and a vault 80 feet (24 meters) below the Fed’s building in lower Manhattan.
    Jason Ma, Fortune, 29 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • By solving the long-standing issues of dendrite growth, cycle life, and thermal safety, this technology could soon be deployed in electric vehicles and for grid-scale energy storage.
    Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 26 Oct. 2025
  • Freeing up storage capacity could potentially allow the city to produce more than the 30 million gallons per day that the Phase One purification plant in western Miramar is slated to produce.
    David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Oct. 2025

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“Repository.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/repository. Accessed 30 Oct. 2025.

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