as in warehouses
a place where military arms are stored
the soldier was sent to the armory to get a replacement weapon for the one that had been stolen
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Noun
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Even that deal was apparently too much for the combatants to follow through on — Ukraine and Russia continue to hit each other’s power stations and oil depots.—
Daniel DePetris,
Chicago Tribune,
8 Apr. 2025 -
Picketing workers have been blamed for blocking dump trucks from leaving depots until police stepped in.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
8 Apr. 2025
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The Americans, Soviets, British, French, and Chinese got to keep their arsenals, enabling deterrence to continue to work, while other signatories gave up the right to go nuclear.—
Gideon Rose,
Foreign Affairs,
8 Mar. 2025
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Among the many reasons is that when both sides possess nuclear arsenals, even trading limited strikes has the potential to escalate all the way up the ladder to use of the world’s most powerful bombs.—
Paul Avey,
Foreign Affairs,
6 Mar. 2025
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“Armories.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/armories. Accessed 1 May. 2025.
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