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a building for storing goods
when the warehouse burned down, we lost most of our merchandise
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Recent Examples of warehouses
Antonio María Delgado,
Miami Herald,
27 June 2026
Her foundation is coordinating with other groups to store supplies in warehouses before sending them to Venezuela on flights, with support from Colombian airlines.
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Manuel Rueda,
NPR,
27 June 2026
Lineage, which describes itself as the world's largest owner of cold storage facilities, experienced a fire at another of its warehouses, in Finley, Washington, which ripped through the entire building and burned for two months in 2024.
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Josh Boswell,
CBS News,
26 June 2026
Overmyer-Velazquez pointed out that these warehouses and industrial plants often provide great benefits to the larger society, yet their effects only burden a select few.
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Carlos De Loera,
Los Angeles Times,
26 June 2026
Israel’s targets included Iranian facilities and missile warehouses in Syria, convoys and shipments of weapons, and Hezbollah and Islamic Revolutionary Guard personnel in Syria.
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Amy McAuliffe,
The Conversation,
26 June 2026
The Museum had rented one of the nine salt warehouses in Venice that once stored up to 4,500 tons of salt (‘white gold’) to be sold—profits from which funded the city’s shipbuilding, naval power, and the expansion of its maritime empire through trade routes and ports across the Mediterranean.
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Zehra Jumabhoy,
Artforum,
25 June 2026
Randy Fink spent much of the 2010s in Atlanta, at a time when money abundantly flowed to finance new office buildings, warehouses and mixed-use districts throughout the region.
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Zachary Hansen,
AJC.com,
22 June 2026
Ukrainian mid-range drone operators increasingly target ammunition deliveries, fuel trucks, troop transports, maintenance facilities, warehouses and logistics hubs that sustain Russian combat operations.
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Hunter Lacroix,
Baltimore Sun,
20 June 2026
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American officials have described Miami as a key command and logistics hub for aid flowing into Venezuela, with warehouses across South Florida consolidating food, medicine, medical supplies and emergency equipment bound for disaster zones.
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Antonio María Delgado,
Miami Herald,
27 June 2026
Her foundation is coordinating with other groups to store supplies in warehouses before sending them to Venezuela on flights, with support from Colombian airlines.
—
Manuel Rueda,
NPR,
27 June 2026
Lineage, which describes itself as the world's largest owner of cold storage facilities, experienced a fire at another of its warehouses, in Finley, Washington, which ripped through the entire building and burned for two months in 2024.
—
Josh Boswell,
CBS News,
26 June 2026
Overmyer-Velazquez pointed out that these warehouses and industrial plants often provide great benefits to the larger society, yet their effects only burden a select few.
—
Carlos De Loera,
Los Angeles Times,
26 June 2026
Israel’s targets included Iranian facilities and missile warehouses in Syria, convoys and shipments of weapons, and Hezbollah and Islamic Revolutionary Guard personnel in Syria.
—
Amy McAuliffe,
The Conversation,
26 June 2026
The Museum had rented one of the nine salt warehouses in Venice that once stored up to 4,500 tons of salt (‘white gold’) to be sold—profits from which funded the city’s shipbuilding, naval power, and the expansion of its maritime empire through trade routes and ports across the Mediterranean.
—
Zehra Jumabhoy,
Artforum,
25 June 2026
Randy Fink spent much of the 2010s in Atlanta, at a time when money abundantly flowed to finance new office buildings, warehouses and mixed-use districts throughout the region.
—
Zachary Hansen,
AJC.com,
22 June 2026
Ukrainian mid-range drone operators increasingly target ammunition deliveries, fuel trucks, troop transports, maintenance facilities, warehouses and logistics hubs that sustain Russian combat operations.
—
Hunter Lacroix,
Baltimore Sun,
20 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for warehouses
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The breadth of the acquisition represented by the two gifts establishes the Menil Collection as one of the most substantial repositories of Winters’ work in the United States, the museum said.
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However, this volume highlights the urgent global need for permanent deep geological repositories or widespread reprocessing to safely manage long-term waste.
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The property also houses its own private theater, wine cellar, tasting room, game room, poker room and fitness center.
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Even with a modest rebound after the pandemic, the BOP today houses roughly 154,000 inmates, nearly 30 percent fewer than at its 2013 peak.
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Sailors can complete repairs on-site instead of waiting for replacement parts to be shipped from repair depots in the United States by manufacturing the necessary patches where the aircraft are deployed.
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At the same time, Ukraine has expanded its own long-range drone campaign, targeting military and energy infrastructure deep inside Russia, including oil refineries and depots.
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The technology stores energy by compressing carbon dioxide using electricity from the grid and later expanding the gas through a turbine to generate power when needed.
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As of Tuesday morning, the fire at the Boyle Heights Storage Facility, which stores frozen food, is still ongoing, according to the Los Angeles Fire Department.
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It’s also not being caused exclusively by ongoing RAM and shortage storages—new MacBook Pros with 128GB of RAM and large SSDs will arrive within two or three weeks of being ordered.
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Bellingcat, which uses open source data, said a video shared by a migrant worker shows what appears to be an Iranian drone hitting fuel storages in the emirate of Fujairah in early March.
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Since its launch, the company has diversified into logistics, fuel delivery, and transport, including hauling containers from Cuban ports to different provinces.
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Pickle Robot's system unloads boxes from trailers or containers.
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The avant-garde architect Kiyonori Kikutake designed the structure as a modern homage to the Edo period takayuka-shiki souko (storehouses built on stilts).
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Although that effort met resistance after the outbreak of Syria’s civil war as Israel began to regularly conduct strikes on weapons storehouses in Syria and on convoys facilitated by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Iran still managed to keep Hezbollah armed.
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“Warehouses.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/warehouses. Accessed 4 Jul. 2026.
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