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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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Recent Examples of depot
The railroad corporation has also paid for improvements and renovations to East Palestine's train depot and water treatment plant.
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Jessica Gorman, ABC News, 28 Jan. 2025
Because they’re used in shifts, most charging will be done overnight with 240 volt current at depots.
—Mark Phelan, USA TODAY, 22 Jan. 2025
Last year, Kyiv performed more than 80 drone attacks on Russian oil refineries and depots and have continued to attempt to injure Russia's economy, both in terms of war funding and trade, this year.
—Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 14 Feb. 2025
The plans, drawn up by Miller Architects and Builders of St. Cloud, show what the city administrator said was an attempt to meld history and aesthetics with functionality in a building that will resemble the old Litchfield train depot.
—Contributed Content, Twin Cities, 7 Feb. 2025
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Jessica Gorman, ABC News, 28 Jan. 2025
Because they’re used in shifts, most charging will be done overnight with 240 volt current at depots.
—Mark Phelan, USA TODAY, 22 Jan. 2025
Last year, Kyiv performed more than 80 drone attacks on Russian oil refineries and depots and have continued to attempt to injure Russia's economy, both in terms of war funding and trade, this year.
—Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 14 Feb. 2025
The plans, drawn up by Miller Architects and Builders of St. Cloud, show what the city administrator said was an attempt to meld history and aesthetics with functionality in a building that will resemble the old Litchfield train depot.
—Contributed Content, Twin Cities, 7 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for depot
Noun
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Police did not share how many people were at the warehouse.—
Meredith Deliso,
ABC News,
7 Mar. 2025
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Many Costco warehouses don't open until 10 a.m., allowing the store time to stock and get ready for the crowds.—
Brandee Gruener,
Southern Living,
6 Mar. 2025
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Memoir The Last Days of the Leather Fortress Tina Horn For a decade, the BDSM site Kink.com has filmed scenes for its more than 50,000 members in a hundred-year-old armory in downtown San Francisco.—
Max Ufberg,
hazlitt.net,
5 Mar. 2025
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The Hutchinson Cooperative Creamery broke all previous records in the amount of business during 1948, and the largest crowd ever to gather at the annual meeting was on hand to hear these reports in the all-day meeting at the armory.—
Kay Johnson,
Twin Cities,
7 Feb. 2025
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When these sorts of mistakes happen, developers often make the repositories private quickly, hoping to contain the fallout.—
Samuel Axon,
Ars Technica,
27 Feb. 2025
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These models will be available via Alibaba Cloud’s Model Scope and Hugging Face, a huge repository of AI models.—
Arjun Kharpal,
CNBC,
26 Feb. 2025
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“Depot.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/depot. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.
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