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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 More Ukrainian drone and missile strikes are targeting drone factories, munitions warehouses and aviation fuel depots on Russian soil. David Axe, Forbes, 20 Mar. 2025 At first, this included occasional attacks, such as the blowing up, by agents of Russia’s GRU military intelligence agency, of ammunition depots in the Czech Republic that had been supplying Ukrainian forces then fighting Russia in the Donbas. Andrei Soldatov, Foreign Affairs, 20 Mar. 2025 One drone struck an oil depot in Cheboksary, a Russian city on the Volga River about 620 miles from the border, the local governor reported. Joanna Kozlowska, Los Angeles Times, 9 Mar. 2025 Even that deal was apparently too much for the combatants to follow through on — Ukraine and Russia continue to hit each other’s power stations and oil depots. Daniel Depetris, Chicago Tribune, 8 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for depot
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Noun
  • My tobacco rope was probably cut from a much bigger section and smuggled out of a warehouse.
    Sean Kingsley, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Apr. 2025
  • In 2017, for example, the Swedish furniture giant IKEA rented out an entire warehouse in the area for all of design week.
    Laura May Todd, New York Times, 6 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • But for years, being a wrestler in Richmond meant going out of town to do small shows held in high school gyms or an armory.
    Karri Peifer, Axios, 2 Apr. 2025
  • The tour included two crowded cell blocks, the armory and an isolation unit.
    CBS News, CBS News, 27 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • With access to the world’s largest repository of people, work and culture data, UKG is uniquely positioned to generate actionable insights that connect employee experience with business outcomes.
    Peter High, Forbes.com, 7 Apr. 2025
  • Morley is editor of the JFK Facts blog and vice president of the Mary Ferrell Foundation, a repository for files related to the assassination.
    CBS News, CBS News, 2 Apr. 2025

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“Depot.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/depot. Accessed 22 Apr. 2025.

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