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depositories

noun

plural of depository

as in warehouses

a building for storing goods a book depository

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Recent Examples of depositories Common options include home safes, bank safe-deposit boxes and third-party bullion depositories. — Roxanne Downer, USA Today, 28 Apr. 2026 Parks, vacant land and the Des Plaines River all became giant snow depositories. — Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 2 Jan. 2026 The oil depositories of the Persian Gulf remain vital to the global economy. — Ray Takeyh, Foreign Affairs, 4 Dec. 2025 Belgium, the home of Euroclear, one of the continent’s chief securities depositories, is wary of taking on the sole legal responsibility for the maneuver. — Joshua Yaffa, New Yorker, 27 Nov. 2025 The rest is spread between depositories in West Point, Denver, and a vault 80 feet (24 meters) below the Fed’s building in lower Manhattan. — Jason Ma, Fortune, 29 Sep. 2025 Professional depositories typically conduct routine audits performed by third-party verification firms. — Angelica Leicht, CBS News, 12 Mar. 2026

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New Sam’s Club warehouses in Baytown, Katy, Tomball and Weslaco will give more Texas shoppers access to bulk discounts, gas stations and pharmacy services.

— Mateo Rosiles, USA Today, 6 July 2026
While Ishmael may pause before coffin-warehouses—coffins, of all sorts, become a major leitmotif of the novel—or even talk of committing suicide, his tone is wry, even ironic.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 6 July 2026

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Human resource systems, learning platforms, credential repositories, and talent management tools generate continuous streams of data across the enterprise.

— Michael Edmondson, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026
The breadth of the acquisition represented by the two gifts establishes the Menil Collection as one of the most substantial repositories of Winters’ work in the United States, the museum said.

— News Desk, Artforum, 29 June 2026

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