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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
Kait Hanson, Southern Living, 15 June 2026
Modern neighborhoods include Scott’s Addition, where former warehouses now house craft breweries, cideries, and some of the city’s buzziest restaurants.
—Lauren Dana Ellman, Travel + Leisure, 15 June 2026
Doremus Avenue and the warehouses and tank farms and truck lots and junk yards along it are not far from the Passaic River.
—Ian Frazier, New Yorker, 15 June 2026
Other warehouses that surround the Medline Distribution Center were evacuated as a precaution.
—Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 12 June 2026
The International Brotherhood of Teamsters Local 888—a largely white union of truck drivers who delivered beer from warehouses to retailers—called for a boycott of Coors in June 1973 after failing to reach an agreement on wages and working conditions with distributors.
—H.m.a. Leow, JSTOR Daily, 12 June 2026
The area is now developing into the city’s most prominent industrial corridor, anchored by Micron’s $50 billion expansion and, subsequently, some of the state’s largest warehouses and distribution centers.
—Mark Dee, Idaho Statesman, 12 June 2026
With more than 50,000 casks spread across 16 warehouses on site, the team has direct control over how its whisky develops over time.
—Emily Price, Forbes.com, 12 June 2026
The company currently has 931 warehouses, including 639 in the United States, 115 in Canada and 43 in Mexico.
—Saleen Martin, USA Today, 8 June 2026
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Grocery shoppers have become so accustomed to rising prices that seeing a lower price tag can feel like a rare win, but that is exactly what is happening at Costco warehouses.
—Kait Hanson, Southern Living, 15 June 2026
Modern neighborhoods include Scott’s Addition, where former warehouses now house craft breweries, cideries, and some of the city’s buzziest restaurants.
—Lauren Dana Ellman, Travel + Leisure, 15 June 2026
Doremus Avenue and the warehouses and tank farms and truck lots and junk yards along it are not far from the Passaic River.
—Ian Frazier, New Yorker, 15 June 2026
Other warehouses that surround the Medline Distribution Center were evacuated as a precaution.
—Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 12 June 2026
The International Brotherhood of Teamsters Local 888—a largely white union of truck drivers who delivered beer from warehouses to retailers—called for a boycott of Coors in June 1973 after failing to reach an agreement on wages and working conditions with distributors.
—H.m.a. Leow, JSTOR Daily, 12 June 2026
The area is now developing into the city’s most prominent industrial corridor, anchored by Micron’s $50 billion expansion and, subsequently, some of the state’s largest warehouses and distribution centers.
—Mark Dee, Idaho Statesman, 12 June 2026
With more than 50,000 casks spread across 16 warehouses on site, the team has direct control over how its whisky develops over time.
—Emily Price, Forbes.com, 12 June 2026
The company currently has 931 warehouses, including 639 in the United States, 115 in Canada and 43 in Mexico.
—Saleen Martin, USA Today, 8 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for warehouses
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Development workflows have progressed from fully manual processes to co-pilots that suggest code—systems capable of executing multistep changes across repositories.—
Fabio Caversan,
Forbes.com,
12 June 2026
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The archive is a mortuary, and the literal presence of bones exemplifies the violence of such repositories.—
Emily Watlington,
ARTnews.com,
10 June 2026
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The campus houses the towering Obama Presidential Museum, community and civic space The Forum, the Home Court NBA regulation-sized basketball court and athletic facility, and a brand new branch of the Chicago Public Library.—
Sara Tenenbaum,
CBS News,
15 June 2026
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The Lyric Theater, which primarily served as a community hub for speakers, meetings, vaudeville shows and movies, received a facelift in 2014 and now houses the Black Archives.—
Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
15 June 2026
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Ukraine’s unmanned aerial systems have also been used to strike Russian ammunition depots, defense equipment, weapons factories, and energy facilities deep within Russian territory.—
Mark Temnycky,
Forbes.com,
11 June 2026
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Other relentless Ukrainian strikes hit refineries, oil depots and pipelines deep inside Russia, hurting its oil exports and causing domestic fuel shortages.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
11 June 2026
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The Tallerboy is a taller-than-a-tallboy canister that stores three regular Coors Light cans inside one oversized container.—
Gabe Hauari,
USA Today,
17 June 2026
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When the car is switched off and in a stable state, the system captures and stores an image of the underbody, establishing a snapshot of what the area should normally look like.—
Bojan Stojkovski,
Interesting Engineering,
14 June 2026
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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.—
Andrew Cunningham,
ArsTechnica,
23 Apr. 2026
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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
Noun
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Remember to wash and sterilize any bottles, scoops, or mixing containers by running them through the dishwasher or using hot soapy water.—
Sarah Scott,
Parents,
15 June 2026
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Troopers also discovered 34 open alcohol containers inside the vehicle during the stop, authorities said.—
Brittany Miller,
FOXNews.com,
14 June 2026
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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 20 Jun. 2026.
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