as in warehouses
a building for storing goods
nurses going back and forth to the medication repository
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Recent Examples of repositories
Used by 4 million organizations and 180 million developers, the cloud platform has more than 400 million code repositories in total.
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Davey Winder, Forbes.com, 20 May 2026
For the past 50 years, and in anticipation of their demise, scientists have been banking tissue samples of the species in repositories like San Diego’s Frozen Zoo.
—Alex Morris, Rolling Stone, 19 May 2026
The source code repositories include private signing certificates, which OpenAI uses to indicate the company’s apps are legit and trustworthy.
—Michael Kan, PC Magazine, 14 May 2026
Over the past decade, supply-chain attacks on open source repositories have become increasingly common.
—Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 27 Apr. 2026
The scores offer one of the most concentrated public repositories of college athlete feedback.
—Daniel Libit, Sportico.com, 14 Apr. 2026
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
More recently, these systems are using artificial intelligence to create a vast, searchable database that can be integrated with other law enforcement data repositories.
—Jess Reia, The Conversation, 27 Mar. 2026
Between March 3 and March 9, cybersecurity companies Aikido, StepSecurity and Socket traced GlassWorm activity across hundreds of repositories and extensions.
—Deni Ellis Béchard, Scientific American, 21 Mar. 2026
Davey Winder, Forbes.com, 20 May 2026
For the past 50 years, and in anticipation of their demise, scientists have been banking tissue samples of the species in repositories like San Diego’s Frozen Zoo.
—Alex Morris, Rolling Stone, 19 May 2026
The source code repositories include private signing certificates, which OpenAI uses to indicate the company’s apps are legit and trustworthy.
—Michael Kan, PC Magazine, 14 May 2026
Over the past decade, supply-chain attacks on open source repositories have become increasingly common.
—Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 27 Apr. 2026
The scores offer one of the most concentrated public repositories of college athlete feedback.
—Daniel Libit, Sportico.com, 14 Apr. 2026
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
More recently, these systems are using artificial intelligence to create a vast, searchable database that can be integrated with other law enforcement data repositories.
—Jess Reia, The Conversation, 27 Mar. 2026
Between March 3 and March 9, cybersecurity companies Aikido, StepSecurity and Socket traced GlassWorm activity across hundreds of repositories and extensions.
—Deni Ellis Béchard, Scientific American, 21 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for repositories
Noun
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Twice-Baked Pistachio Croissants are also popping up in warehouses this spring.—
Kait Hanson,
Southern Living,
18 May 2026
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Project Tango’s data center would span a million square feet, with nearly 2 million additional square feet of warehouses on the 202-acre site.—
Raisa Habersham,
Miami Herald,
16 May 2026
Noun
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Common options include home safes, bank safe-deposit boxes and third-party bullion depositories.—
Roxanne Downer,
USA Today,
28 Apr. 2026
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Professional depositories typically conduct routine audits performed by third-party verification firms.—
Angelica Leicht,
CBS News,
12 Mar. 2026
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“Repositories.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/repositories. Accessed 25 May. 2026.
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