Definition of repositorynext
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 That's a mindset the Susan Wojcicki Foundation hopes to help change with the other initial grant, to maintain a repository of blood samples from nonsmokers diagnosed with lung cancer. Alice Park, Time, 12 May 2026 It will be posted online in mid-2026 to Indiana University’s scholarship repository. Nausheena Hussain, The Conversation, 5 May 2026 The findings are described in a paper on the arXiv pre-print paper repository. Keith Cooper, Space.com, 4 May 2026 Over the past decade, supply-chain attacks on open source repositories have become increasingly common. Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 27 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for repository
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Noun
  • Lightweight models, however, can operate from rooftops, small warehouses, or almost any flat surface.
    Chris Young, Interesting Engineering, 14 May 2026
  • The agency originally said the warehouse would be converted and operational by June, but Social Circle officials say that was nearly impossible given the infrastructure and environmental constraints of their town.
    Irene Wright, USA Today, 14 May 2026
Noun
  • However, Birch Gold Group isn’t a custodian or depository itself, meaning this company doesn’t personally manage your retirement account or store precious metals.
    Amy DeYoung, USA Today, 8 May 2026
  • The Middle East remains the world’s key depository of both—aside from the US.
    Jim Edwards, Fortune, 29 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Unidentified trespassers stole the control stick out of an R train while it was parked underground in southern Brooklyn back in December — along a stretch of storage track popular with joyriders and graffiti artists.
    Evan Simko-Bednarski, New York Daily News, 14 May 2026
  • Speculation is that the automaker will get into the large-scale energy storage business.
    Andrew P. Collins, The Drive, 14 May 2026

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“Repository.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/repository. Accessed 22 May. 2026.

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