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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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Soot, ash and toxic chemicals from strikes on fuel depots and a refinery combined with water droplets in the atmosphere and fell back to Earth as an oily, acidic rain that prompted warnings to stay indoors.
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Tammy Webber, Los Angeles Times, 26 Mar. 2026
And yet Ukraine had its successes, most notably its strikes on Russian fuel depots and Operation Spiderweb, in which drones launched from trucks within Russia’s borders hit four air bases.
—Olivier Kempf, Harpers Magazine, 24 Mar. 2026
Disarming and decommissioning Hezbollah requires a very strong army to be able to go in and find weapons depots and arrest people.
—Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2026
The fuel depot attack, like all military operations in this campaign, was coordinated with the US in advance, two Israeli officials told CNN.
—Tal Shalev, CNN Money, 19 Mar. 2026
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Tammy Webber, Los Angeles Times, 26 Mar. 2026
And yet Ukraine had its successes, most notably its strikes on Russian fuel depots and Operation Spiderweb, in which drones launched from trucks within Russia’s borders hit four air bases.
—Olivier Kempf, Harpers Magazine, 24 Mar. 2026
Disarming and decommissioning Hezbollah requires a very strong army to be able to go in and find weapons depots and arrest people.
—Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2026
The fuel depot attack, like all military operations in this campaign, was coordinated with the US in advance, two Israeli officials told CNN.
—Tal Shalev, CNN Money, 19 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for depot
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Within in an hour of the first departure in Lantana, the helicopter nosedived through the roof of a vacant warehouse near the 3800 block of South Congress Avenue just west of Interstate 95.—
Angie DiMichele,
Sun Sentinel,
3 Apr. 2026
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The strikes look to have targeted multiple buildings and small warehouses that make up the barracks, which share the name of the Khordad 15 air defense system officially revealed by the Iranian government in 2019.—
Kevin Collier,
NBC news,
2 Apr. 2026
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Just the gas of driving to the armory and back twice would take a bite out of that.—
Edward Lotterman,
Twin Cities,
22 Mar. 2026
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In sync with American tastes, there’s an apartment-sized amount of space and an armory of amenities, including an industrial-speed hairdryer and a clothes steamer for any emergency de-crinkling.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
17 Mar. 2026
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The vehicle information that’s captured is typically stored in the cloud, creating a massive web of data repositories.—
Jess Reia,
The Conversation,
27 Mar. 2026
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But due to the ban on subawards, support for the University of Cambridge team — which updates the repository with new genetic and phenotypic information as it is generated — was removed.—
Megan Molteni,
STAT,
27 Mar. 2026
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“Depot.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/depot. Accessed 4 Apr. 2026.
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