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Synonyms: Noun
depository, depot, magazine, storage, storehouse, warehouse
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Examples of repository in a Sentence
Noun
a repository for nuclear waste He is the repository of many secrets. She is the repository of her family's history.
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The vault has been a source of numerous media reports about its status as repository for ultra-wealthy clients, as well as its elaborate security measures that reportedly involve armed guards and multiple layers of granite inside a mountain. — Jeff John Roberts, Fortune, "Exclusive: Coinbase Buys Xapo Custody for $55 Million, Eyes Lending Business," 15 Aug. 2019 In 1987 the federal government proposed Yucca Mountain, about 100 miles north of Las Vegas, Nevada, as a permanent centralized repository for such nuclear waste. — National Geographic, "All spent nuclear fuel in the U.S. will soon end up in one place," 30 July 2019 Creating a friendlier website hadn’t been a priority because it was used as a repository for technical information for programmers and linguists. — Anne Quito, Quartz, "Proposing your own 💡 for an emoji just got a bit easier," 17 July 2019 The Brainwash dataset was removed from its original website last month after Adam Harvey, an activist in Germany who tracks the use of these repositories through a website called MegaPixels, drew attention to it. — Cade Metz, BostonGlobe.com, "Companies gather massive databases of people’s images for facial recognition tools," 13 July 2019 Its government has agreed to accept up to 20, with 135 passengers each, potentially turning the country into a kind of reverse Ellis Island — a repository, far from the U.S. border, for those the United States has rejected. — Nick Miroff, Washington Post, "ICE Air: Shackled deportees, air freshener and cheers. America’s one-way trip out.," 10 Aug. 2019 The federal government has spent between $15 billion and $19 billion to construct the repository, which would permanently store nuclear waste in geological recesses. — Rob Nikolewski, Los Angeles Times, "Finding a repository for San Onofre plant’s nuclear waste is a difficult task," 27 July 2019 Minnesota Public Radio News reports that pharmacy students Rowan Mahon and Hannah Van Ochten were behind the bill to set up the repository, which will begin next year. — USA TODAY, "‘Molly of Denali,’ saloon discourse, ashes by mail: News from around our 50 states," 10 July 2019 The usual starting point for the research is the repository in St. Louis, a vast building crowded with more than six acres of shelves stacked 29 feet high. — New York Times, "Their Fathers Never Spoke of the War. Their Children Want to Know Why.," 5 June 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'repository.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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