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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 But precious metals held within IRAs must meet IRS purity requirements and be held in qualified depositories. — Javier Simon, USA Today, 11 July 2026 Professional depositories typically conduct routine audits performed by third-party verification firms. — Angelica Leicht, CBS News, 12 Mar. 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 Parks, vacant land and the Des Plaines River all became giant snow depositories. — Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 2 Jan. 2025

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Mana reportedly paid around $70 million over the years to assemble Mana Wynwood, a 30-acre event venue developed out of a collection of warehouses.

— Catherine Odom, Miami Herald, 17 Oct. 2026
Attacks on oil refineries have led to widespread fuel shortages, while strikes on warehouses operated by Russia’s largest online retailers, Wildberries and Ozon, have caused chaos for micro-entrepreneurs who rely on their networks.

— Zahra Ullah, CNN Money, 17 Oct. 2026

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That's more in line with tasks that use multipage documents, code repositories, or scientific datasets.

— Brian Westover, PC Magazine, 16 Oct. 2026
Now, agents remove that constraint by searching across repositories and pulling relevant data into the workflow on the user’s behalf.

— Nick Burling, Forbes.com, 13 Oct. 2026

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