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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 Wall Street Journal: Ukraine’s Western missiles threaten big Russian assets: airports, ammo depots and command headquarters.
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Alexis Simendinger, The Hill, 25 Nov. 2024
In July, a package exploded at a DHL depot in Leipzig and another burst into flames at a DHL depot in Birmingham, England.
—Patrick Smith, NBC News, 25 Nov. 2024
Through these strikes, Ukraine seeks to disrupt Russian supply lines and target logistics hubs and ammunition depots.
—Katya Soldak, Forbes, 21 Nov. 2024
Ukraine used eight long-range US missiles to successfully hit an ammunition depot deep inside Russia, according to two US defense officials.
—Lauren Kent, CNN, 20 Nov. 2024
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Alexis Simendinger, The Hill, 25 Nov. 2024
In July, a package exploded at a DHL depot in Leipzig and another burst into flames at a DHL depot in Birmingham, England.
—Patrick Smith, NBC News, 25 Nov. 2024
Through these strikes, Ukraine seeks to disrupt Russian supply lines and target logistics hubs and ammunition depots.
—Katya Soldak, Forbes, 21 Nov. 2024
Ukraine used eight long-range US missiles to successfully hit an ammunition depot deep inside Russia, according to two US defense officials.
—Lauren Kent, CNN, 20 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for depot
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Sachs and Rosenfeld said Amazon’s multi-year delay in negotiating with its first union at a warehouse on Staten Island showed the weaknesses in labor law.Greg Bensinger, USA TODAY, 20 Dec. 2024
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Advertisement The Teamsters announced a nationwide campaign to unionize Amazon’s warehouse and delivery workers in summer of 2021.Suhauna Hussain, Los Angeles Times, 19 Dec. 2024
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That’s nowhere clearer than in the climactic final confrontation between Noa and Proximus Caesar’s brute in command, an imposing gorilla named Sylva (Eka Darville), which takes place within a gargantuan armory that’s flooding quickly around them.Manuel Betancourt, Los Angeles Times, 6 Dec. 2024
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According to a history of the armory published by the McDaniel Free Press on Dec. 5, 2016; by 1980 a new armory was built on Hahn Road and the City of Westminster began leasing the building.Kevin Dayhoff, Baltimore Sun, 16 Nov. 2024
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Rather than simply autocompleting sections of code, as current AI tools do, these agents can take on more complex work, such as checking code into repositories or combining data to enable analysis.Will Knight, WIRED, 11 Dec. 2024
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Norma and David had converted the median strip beyond their sidewalk into a native-plant repository—Christmas fern, aster, monarda, bergamot.Lauren Groff, The New Yorker, 8 Dec. 2024
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“Depot.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/depot. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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