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Definition of warehousenext
as in repository
a building for storing goods when the warehouse burned down, we lost most of our merchandise

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verb

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Recent Examples of warehouse
Noun
The apartments would go on a site currently occupied by vacant homes and old brick warehouses, and would rise above the mostly single-family homes that dot the corner of East Sacramento near the Capital City Freeway. Stephen Hobbs, Sacbee.com, 29 Apr. 2026 But that business drew scrutiny after state reports of 31 sloth deaths in its warehouse facility came to light. Dewayne Bevil, The Orlando Sentinel, 29 Apr. 2026
Verb
Cureate does not warehouse or distribute food products, the company buys purchases the food order and the farmer delivers it to the customer, Bryden said. Cristina Larue, Arkansas Online, 9 Nov. 2025 Sushi dinners and speedier shopping The desire for both convenience and cheaper food options has been a boon to warehouse clubs in recent years. Melissa Repko, CNBC, 20 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for warehouse
Recent Examples of Synonyms for warehouse
Noun
  • Not a repository for Bollywood’s Hindi-language cinema alone, but a defender of India’s full linguistic and regional range.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 22 Apr. 2026
  • The director’s office has become a repository for political appointees, most of whom have no public health experience or medical credentials.
    Helen Branswell, STAT, 18 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • When Tina LaMonica and Warren Wellen purchased their South Pasadena Craftsman home in 2001, the one-car garage dated back to 1917, a time when people parked their narrow Ford Model T cars inside garages like this one.
    Lisa Boone, Los Angeles Times, 7 Apr. 2026
  • Each Halloween one of our neighbors decorated their yard and garage with a display that rivaled professional haunted houses.
    Shari Rudavsky, IndyStar, 22 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • The company also points out the land sits next to a tractor-trailer depot already approved by Miami-Dade on land that’s also outside the UDB and that Miami-Dade once seriously considered building a sewage-treatment plant on the site before that project fizzled years ago.
    Douglas Hanks, Miami Herald, 24 Apr. 2026
  • His missions involved strafing the German ground transportation system, including railways, roads and fuel depots, with on-board machine guns.
    Laura Ness, Mercury News, 19 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • Shipments include six bottles total, two of each selection, so members have one to open now and one to cellar for savoring at a later date.
    Mike DeSimone, Robb Report, 17 Feb. 2026
  • Structured enough to cellar, but irresistible right now.
    Devin Parr, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Existing storage facilities within Beijing’s Sixth Ring Road—an encircling expressway about 15 to 20 miles from the city center—are limited to storing a maximum of three drones or 10 core components while also being required to undergo police inspections.
    Jeremy Hsu, ArsTechnica, 30 Apr. 2026
  • Look for potato storage bins that keep most (if not all) light out.
    BestReviews, Mercury News, 30 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • Thousands of photographs and historical documents are stored in archives and the collections section of the museum houses an assortment of memorabilia.
    Linda Mcintosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Apr. 2026
  • Plus, through the larger project, Mutual Ground is looking to add a new building on campus to house its outpatient services.
    R. Christian Smith, Chicago Tribune, 26 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • The first is whether a geofence is covered by the Fourth Amendment at all, and second is whether the millions of people who voluntarily signed up to have their location data stored for them essentially gave up any right to privacy.
    Nina Totenberg, NPR, 27 Apr. 2026
  • Maintained by a team of a dozen full-time florists, the flowers for the ceremony were stored in a giant walk-in refrigerator and were delivered to the set all in one day to avoid them sitting out in the sun.
    Zoe Papelis, Vulture, 27 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • Leslie Day, a friend who hangared her plane near Ms. Bera’s at Gillespie Field in El Cajon, Calif., outside San Diego, estimated in an interview that Ms. Bera had spent the equivalent of more than three years in the pilot’s seat.
    Daniel E. Slotnik, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Apr. 2018
  • The issue of high fuel prices came to the board’s attention in late spring when airport tenants – which range from flight schools, to charter aircraft, to hangar renters – began to complain to board members.
    Jordan Graham, Orange County Register, 25 Jan. 2017

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