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noun

plural of warehouse
as in repositories
a building for storing goods when the warehouse burned down, we lost most of our merchandise

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verb

present tense third-person singular of warehouse
as in houses

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Recent Examples of warehouses
Noun
The helicopter crashed in a driveway between two warehouses, smashing into a pair of truck cargo containers while the news crew tried grabbing video footage of a serious collision involving a Metro bus that also left two people dead. — Carlos De Loera, Los Angeles Times, 18 Sep. 2026 Opinion polls have shown United Russia, a party backed by Putin, far ahead of its rivals, although the party's approval ratings have slumped to a four-year low amid a nationwide fuel crisis and Ukrainian drone strikes on delivery warehouses. — Sam Meredith,anniek Bao, CNBC, 17 Sep. 2026 Portman first proposed its revamp of Amsterdam Walk in 2023, intending to raze the aging warehouses to build a more dense and vertical project centered on apartments. — Zachary Hansen, AJC.com, 17 Sep. 2026 Uber said nearly 600 Costco locations are participating, compared with 641 Costco warehouses in the United States and Puerto Rico. — Anthony Thompson, USA Today, 17 Sep. 2026 The company said current logistics networks operate through various brokers, carriers, internal teams and warehouses that only optimize their own portion of the process. — Arthur Zaczkiewicz, Footwear News, 16 Sep. 2026 As Florida’s summer of data center backlash has worn on, residents fighting the warehouses have found reasons for hope. — Emily L. Mahoney, Miami Herald, 4 Sep. 2026 The postindustrial warehouses were no longer empty or inexpensive. — Michael Calderone, Curbed, 4 Sep. 2026 Shop Before the Crowds With Executive Early Hours Some warehouses offer exclusive early shopping hours for Executive members. — Danielle Bouchard, Martha Stewart, 4 Sep. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for warehouses
  1. repositories
  2. houses
  3. depots
  4. stores
  5. storages
  6. containers
  7. storehouses
Noun
  • In this case, the company’s coding pipeline and code repositories were identified as targets.
    — J.D. Capelouto, semafor.com, 16 Sep. 2026
  • Yet, despite having pristine pools of first-party consumer insights, many CDPs remain passive archives—costly repositories of record that store data rather than act on it in real time.
    — Pratik Bhadra, Forbes.com, 14 Sep. 2026
Definition of repositories
Verb
  • Back in August, the singer’s team erected a pop-up merch shop on the same quiet downtown block that houses Slotnick’s cookbook store, which has been in business for 30 years.
    — Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 23 Sep. 2026
  • The store also houses the Rag & Bone Archive, with pieces from the brand’s history displayed exhibition style to showcase its craftsmanship and house codes.
    — Rhonda Richford, Footwear News, 23 Sep. 2026
Definition of houses
Noun
  • The city owns 14,900 parcels across the five boroughs, including municipal rooftops, parking lots, and fleet depots, that can be turned into hubs of clean energy production.
    — Mark Levine, New York Daily News, 20 Sep. 2026
  • The work also includes setting up charging depots and cleaning and maintenance hubs for the vehicles.
    — Charlotte Observer, Charlotte Observer, 19 Sep. 2026
Definition of depots
Verb
  • Removing the conventional anode Standard lithium-ion batteries contain an anode material, typically graphite, that stores lithium while the battery charges.
    — Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 22 Sep. 2026
  • This last bit is handled by Norwegian CO2 transport firm Northern Lights, which stores its cargo in a reservoir 8,530 ft (2,600 m) beneath the seabed.
    — Abhimanyu Ghoshal, New Atlas, 20 Sep. 2026
Definition of stores
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Definition of storages
Noun
  • Native Plant Sale Buy native plants to add to your garden or containers to create habitats for birds, pollinators and other wildlife.
    — Mary Caldwell, AJC.com, 22 Sep. 2026
  • After some quality control checks, including researchers who examine mosquito sperm under a microscope to ensure those swimmers are dead in the water, they get packed into containers for release.
    — Alex Harris, Miami Herald, 21 Sep. 2026
Definition of containers
Noun
  • Many of the wood-and-stone homes, barns, and raccards (grain storehouses) date to the 15th century.
    — Jen Murphy, Travel + Leisure, 7 Sep. 2026
  • But another petitioner, Sylvi, brings a troubling complaint against King’s Landing’s highborn, who filled their storehouses while the city’s normies struggled to fill their dinner plates.
    — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 6 July 2026
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“Warehouses.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/warehouses. Accessed 26 Sep. 2026.

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