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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
Azhar Sukri,terri Cullen,spencer Kimball, CNBC, 19 Apr. 2026
But past city leaders were content to see Amazon scoop up this property for a song and double down on warehouses in a part of the city that already hosts more than its fair share of heavy industry.
—Juan Sebastian Arias, Chicago Tribune, 17 Apr. 2026
The Department of Homeland Security was increasing its ICE presence in Georgia earlier this year with the purchase of two warehouses to be turned into detention facilities.
—Irene Wright, USA Today, 17 Apr. 2026
The 985-unit Collection at Cactus will be in the heart of Otay Mesa, mainly home to warehouses and customs brokers involved in international trade, but increasingly becoming a spot for less expensive housing.
—Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Apr. 2026
This is different from actions taken by some cities that have enacted temporary bans on the large warehouses that house computing equipment in massive amounts that require water to cool them down and an enormous power supply to run them.
—Steve Scauzillo, Daily News, 15 Apr. 2026
Robots such as Boston Dynamics’ four-legged Spot can now accurately read analog thermometers and pressure gauges while roaming around factories and warehouses.
—Scharon Harding, ArsTechnica, 15 Apr. 2026
That flood of money has also allowed ICE to hire thousands of agents and expand the number of detention center beds, even moving to purchase warehouses to house more detainees.
—Sam Gringlas, NPR, 13 Apr. 2026
The movement jumped to Apple retail locations, Trader Joe’s, Amazon warehouses, and REI.
—Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 10 Apr. 2026
Noun
The broadcaster aired a two-minute video paired with uplifting music, showing missiles and drones in warehouses as well as mobile launches of missiles.
—Azhar Sukri,terri Cullen,spencer Kimball, CNBC, 19 Apr. 2026
But past city leaders were content to see Amazon scoop up this property for a song and double down on warehouses in a part of the city that already hosts more than its fair share of heavy industry.
—Juan Sebastian Arias, Chicago Tribune, 17 Apr. 2026
The Department of Homeland Security was increasing its ICE presence in Georgia earlier this year with the purchase of two warehouses to be turned into detention facilities.
—Irene Wright, USA Today, 17 Apr. 2026
The 985-unit Collection at Cactus will be in the heart of Otay Mesa, mainly home to warehouses and customs brokers involved in international trade, but increasingly becoming a spot for less expensive housing.
—Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Apr. 2026
This is different from actions taken by some cities that have enacted temporary bans on the large warehouses that house computing equipment in massive amounts that require water to cool them down and an enormous power supply to run them.
—Steve Scauzillo, Daily News, 15 Apr. 2026
Robots such as Boston Dynamics’ four-legged Spot can now accurately read analog thermometers and pressure gauges while roaming around factories and warehouses.
—Scharon Harding, ArsTechnica, 15 Apr. 2026
That flood of money has also allowed ICE to hire thousands of agents and expand the number of detention center beds, even moving to purchase warehouses to house more detainees.
—Sam Gringlas, NPR, 13 Apr. 2026
The movement jumped to Apple retail locations, Trader Joe’s, Amazon warehouses, and REI.
—Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 10 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for warehouses
Noun
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The scores offer one of the most concentrated public repositories of college athlete feedback.—
Daniel Libit,
Sportico.com,
14 Apr. 2026
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Rather like Indian gurus in nineteen-sixties hippie culture, the Jews were assumed to be repositories of every kind of mystical and human elevation.—
Adam Gopnik,
New Yorker,
13 Apr. 2026
Verb
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Morgan Hall houses approximately 1,200 students and serves as a key residential hall for the school.—
Julia Bonavita,
FOXNews.com,
20 Apr. 2026
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The plant houses 14 rumbling pumps in two football-field sized wings and is one of the most powerful water lifting systems in the world.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
20 Apr. 2026
Noun
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His missions involved strafing the German ground transportation system, including railways, roads and fuel depots, with on-board machine guns.—
Laura Ness,
Mercury News,
19 Apr. 2026
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The targets were not rocket launchers or weapons depots, according to the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), but the nerve centers of the organization — command rooms, intelligence headquarters and offices where Hezbollah commanders planned the next stage of the fight.—
Efrat Lachter,
FOXNews.com,
15 Apr. 2026
Noun
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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.—
NPR Staff,
NPR,
3 Apr. 2026
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Ukraine’s winter storages will be tapped out before the end of cold weather.—
Suriya Jayanti,
Time,
10 Nov. 2025
Noun
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Choose Planters With Drainage—and Size Up When choosing containers for your city garden, experts emphasize one key design feature as the most important.—
Nicole Kliest,
Vogue,
20 Apr. 2026
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Matching containers for a cohesive look Decanting products into matching containers removes visual noise from packaging.—
Lauren Jarvis-Gibson,
Miami Herald,
20 Apr. 2026
Verb
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The moss also absorbs and stores planet-warming carbon dioxide.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
15 Apr. 2026
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The restaurant is also known for its Grand Marnier Club, which stores a bottle of the cognac orange liqueur for each of its members.—
Lily Carey,
Baltimore Sun,
14 Apr. 2026
Noun
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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).—
Jonathan DeLise,
Travel + Leisure,
31 Jan. 2026
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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.—
Afshon Ostovar,
Foreign Affairs,
17 Sep. 2025
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“Warehouses.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/warehouses. Accessed 22 Apr. 2026.
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