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repository

[ri-poz-i-tawr-ee] / rɪˈpɒz ɪˌtɔr i /


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He committed code to the project’s public GitHub repository as recently as last week.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

Agents built with OpenAI's models have inappropriately accessed websites maintained by US federal agencies, an Australian government health statistics portal and Hugging Face, a repository of AI models.

From Barron's ● Sep. 29, 2026

Monorepo, according to people familiar with OpenAI’s architecture, is a large software repository of OpenAI’s algorithmic secrets.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

Many have never been able to bury a loved one, but some families choose to leave the remains - once found - at a repository at the 9/11 memorial site in New York.

From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026

When Hoover became the bureau’s acting director, he created the Identification Division, a central repository for the fingerprints of arrested criminals from around the country.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann

Humphrey’s made “independent agencies more tempting repositories for delegated powers that the President could not access with quite such ease,” he writes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026

Rather than relying exclusively on archival institutional repositories, the studio executed specialized field expeditions to a variety of distinct global environments to gather raw primary telemetry like detailed images, LiDAR scans, weather data and sound.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2026

Places like these become repositories of memory, carrying traces of different eras inside them.

From BBC ● May 25, 2026

The publication reported sequencing data and genome assembly resources deposited in public repositories.

From Science Daily ● May 7, 2026

There were the vast repositories where the corrected documents were stored, and the hidden furnaces where the original copies were destroyed.

From "1984" by George Orwell


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