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as in warehouse
a building for storing goods
a distribution depot for auto parts
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as in armory
a place where military arms are stored
the guns and ammunition were stored in a depot in Concord
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Recent Examples of depot
This small timber town was home to the large Union train depot; surprising for such a small town.
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Ray Hanley, arkansasonline.com, 17 Dec. 2024
Cops previously believed Mangione fled the city via a bus taken from a depot near the George Washington Bridge.
—Rocco Parascandola, New York Daily News, 13 Dec. 2024
State of play: Over the past 48 hours, the Israeli air force has conducted air strikes against dozens of Syrian military bases, arms depots and facilities that were part of Syria's chemical weapons and ballistic missile programs, Israeli officials said.
—Barak Ravid, Axios, 9 Dec. 2024
The Ukrainian air force and army have been trying to make an unfair fight more fair by blowing up supply depots and headquarters in and around the oblast.
—David Axe, Forbes, 1 Dec. 2024
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Ray Hanley, arkansasonline.com, 17 Dec. 2024
Cops previously believed Mangione fled the city via a bus taken from a depot near the George Washington Bridge.
—Rocco Parascandola, New York Daily News, 13 Dec. 2024
State of play: Over the past 48 hours, the Israeli air force has conducted air strikes against dozens of Syrian military bases, arms depots and facilities that were part of Syria's chemical weapons and ballistic missile programs, Israeli officials said.
—Barak Ravid, Axios, 9 Dec. 2024
The Ukrainian air force and army have been trying to make an unfair fight more fair by blowing up supply depots and headquarters in and around the oblast.
—David Axe, Forbes, 1 Dec. 2024
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Sachs and Rosenfeld said Amazon’s multi-year delay in negotiating with its first union at a warehouse on Staten Island showed the weaknesses in labor law.Greg Bensinger, USA TODAY, 20 Dec. 2024
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Advertisement The Teamsters announced a nationwide campaign to unionize Amazon’s warehouse and delivery workers in summer of 2021.Suhauna Hussain, Los Angeles Times, 19 Dec. 2024
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That’s nowhere clearer than in the climactic final confrontation between Noa and Proximus Caesar’s brute in command, an imposing gorilla named Sylva (Eka Darville), which takes place within a gargantuan armory that’s flooding quickly around them.Manuel Betancourt, Los Angeles Times, 6 Dec. 2024
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According to a history of the armory published by the McDaniel Free Press on Dec. 5, 2016; by 1980 a new armory was built on Hahn Road and the City of Westminster began leasing the building.Kevin Dayhoff, Baltimore Sun, 16 Nov. 2024
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An underground nuclear-waste repository in New Mexico’s southern desert also receives federal funding; after a fire and an unrelated radiological release at the facility, ten years ago, the Department of Energy spent nearly five hundred million dollars on an update to its safety infrastructure.Abe Streep, The New Yorker, 27 Dec. 2024
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The year’s mounting censorship controversies ultimately—and inevitably—created a crisis of faith at these institutions, which purportedly exist as repositories of history.Tessa Solomon, ARTnews.com, 23 Dec. 2024
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“Depot.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/depot. Accessed 30 Dec. 2024.
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