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 It has been posted on the paper repository site arXiv. Robert Lea, Space.com, 27 Jan. 2025 But the virus can also be spread through breathing in contaminated repository droplets. Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 24 Jan. 2025 He's talked about how Community Notes on Twitter should be the world's repository of information. Raul A. Reyes, Newsweek, 22 Jan. 2025 The endless tracts of little homes, each a repository of a family’s dreams and life savings. Shawn Hubler, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for repository
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Noun
  • In addition to the 617 Costco warehouses in the U.S., the company has locations in Canada (109), Mexico (41), Japan (36) the U.K. (29), Korea (19), Australia (15), Taiwan (14), China (7), Spain (5), France (2) and one each in Iceland, New Zealand and Sweden.
    Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 23 Feb. 2025
  • That could come in handy for mapping and monitoring large indoor spaces like warehouses and tunnels, search and rescue operations, taking inventory and moving packages between stockroom shelves – all without the the need for human operators to have these drones in their line of sight.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 22 Feb. 2025
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  • Only thrice since the depository was established have outsiders entered the vault.
    Jeanine Santucci, USA TODAY, 27 Feb. 2025
  • The gold depository at Fort Knox has a reputation for being impenetrable, which has gained it a place in popular culture.
    CBS News, CBS News, 21 Feb. 2025
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  • The United States is now the second-largest energy storage market in the world.
    Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 22 Feb. 2025
  • For example, the United States is largely dependent on China for rare earths used in fiber optics, lasers, batteries, nuclear control rods, medical imaging, metallurgy, permanent magnets, catalysts, electronics, aerospace alloys, solid state devices, and data storage devices.
    Deborah Wince-Smith, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2025

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