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 The best ideas now emerge not just from Harvard Business Review or McKinsey reports but from research labs, GitHub repositories, YouTube, X, LinkedIn, expert newsletters, research papers, product announcements and many other sources. John Sviokla, Forbes.com, 24 May 2025 Many of the bad queries came from agents or analysts running routine checks for information in all the F.B.I.’s databases at once, without thinking about the additional limits on the 702 repository. Charlie Savage, New York Times, 20 May 2025 The desert is the perfect setting for this reflection, as the arid location functions as both a repository for overwhelming feelings and a reminder of our own smallness in the grand scheme of things. Lovia Gyarkye, HollywoodReporter, 15 May 2025 Space could also be an ideal backup repository for the world’s most precious information archives. Michael Wu, Forbes.com, 14 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for repository
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  • The protests began Friday after ICE agents carried out coordinated raids across Los Angeles, detaining dozens of workers at warehouses and other worksites.
    Nik Popli, Time, 11 June 2025
  • Concerns over the lighter cargo loads have been apparent in industries across the supply chain impacted by port throughput, including trucking and rail, which are tasked with transporting the cargo to warehouses.
    Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 9 June 2025
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  • At the state level, Texas has established a gold depository, allowing citizens to store and trade gold within the state’s financial system.
    Sanford Mann, Forbes.com, 1 May 2025
  • Many American depository receipts (ADRs) of South African producers have done exceptionally well so far in 2025, with Sibanye Stillwater up about 50%, AngloGold Ashanti and DRDGold both up 93% to 94%, and Harmony Gold up a remarkable 113%.
    Frank Holmes, Forbes.com, 21 Apr. 2025
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  • Similarly, building enormous solar and wind farms deep in flyover country necessitates enormous expenditures on fancy new storage equipment and mechanical devices to manage voltage and grid frequency, and new high-voltage DC transmission lines.
    Erik Kobayashi-Solomon, Forbes.com, 8 June 2025
  • Ukraine struck airfields and other military targets in Russia, such as fuel storage tanks and transport hubs, the Ukrainian General Staff said.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 7 June 2025

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“Repository.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/repository. Accessed 15 Jun. 2025.

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