Thesaurus results for REPOSITORY

repository

noun

ri-ˈpä-zə-ˌtȯr-ē

Definition of repository

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 Every year, the Bureau of Economic Analysis updates its massive repository of national, industry and regional data to incorporate newly available statistics and more accurately capture changes in prices. — Alicia Wallace, CNN Money, 30 Sep. 2026 The company, which disclosed the hacks after an inquiry by The Wall Street Journal, said the model guessed passwords in one case and found passwords and credentials in a public repository in the other two cases. — ABC News, 30 Sep. 2026 This allowed data to flow smoothly to any repository or system that was helpful for the army. — Dan Driscoll, Foreign Affairs, 28 Sep. 2026 The team's research is available as a preprint on the repository site arXiv and has been accepted for publication in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics. — Robert Lea, Space.com, 24 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for repository

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The series kicked off in 2022 with the release of Camp Nelson C, a bourbon aged for at least 10 years in a warehouse at Camp Nelson, which many consider to yield some of the distillery’s best whiskey based on climate and weather conditions there.

— Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 6 Oct. 2026
Costco initially courted the city with plans for a roughly 166,000-square-foot warehouse at the northeast corner of State Highway 55 and Hill Road, but the project has yet to make it to a public hearing.

— Rose Evans October 6, Idaho Statesman, 6 Oct. 2026

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But most of it is locked in Euroclear, a Belgian securities depository, and Brussels fears that handing over the assets will result in court cases that eventually force it to pay Moscow back.

— Dmytro Kuleba, Foreign Affairs, 30 Sep. 2026
After a brief hiatus in July and August, foreign investors have resumed selling Indian equities in September, data from depository firm NSDL showed.

— Priyanka Salve, CNBC, 22 Sep. 2026

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Ukraine has hit back at Russia by launching long-range drones and missiles at oil refineries and storage depots.

— SAMYA KULLAB, Arkansas Online, 8 Oct. 2026
Researchers at Fudan University in China have bypassed onboard storage entirely by turning the ground beneath the machine into a power supply.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 8 Oct. 2026

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