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Recent Examples of depository
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.
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Joshua Yaffa, New Yorker, 27 Nov. 2025
Lee Harvey Oswald was accused of carrying out the shooting from the window of a book depository, and Oswald was slain by Jack Ruby days later.
—Arizona Republic, AZCentral.com, 22 Nov. 2025
Until a few weeks ago, however, the Chiefs’ outpost inside SubTropolis flew largely under the radar, serving primarily as a depository for historical documents, films, trophies, uniforms and photos.
—Blair Kerkhoff, Kansas City Star, 24 Oct. 2025
Consumer advocates and policymakers have long been concerned with banking deserts – areas where residents have no access to depository institutions and must rely on more expensive, less secure services like check cashers.
—Andrea Riquier, USA Today, 8 Oct. 2025
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In neighborhoods like NuLu, where old warehouses now house wine bars, cheese shops, and deeply personal restaurants, that sense of possibility feels not just palpable but earned.—
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Now analysts warn rising opposition to the massive warehouses powering the artificial intelligence revolution is shaping up to be a major factor in the 2026 midterm elections.—
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Media industry newsletters and the tabloids have become repositories for unattributed comments from CBS News insiders who are unhappy with the changes.—
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Visitors cannot enter the repositories, but walkways along the exterior allow close views of the austere wooden structures and their distinctive clay-and-charcoal foundations.—
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“Depository.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/depository. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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