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warehouse

[wair-haus, wair-hauz, -haus] / ˈwɛərˌhaʊs, ˈwɛərˌhaʊz, -ˌhaʊs /


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You’re right that standing up all day is tough, even if you’re not lugging boxes to and from the warehouse or climbing ladders and risking your health to help a customer or to restock shelves.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026

The Lineage cold-storage warehouse fire broke out in June, causing communities on L.A.’s Eastside to cope with the stench of rotting meat for two months.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

Just the day before, the building was being used as a warehouse for the ECO Market chain.

From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026

Stored in an open-air warehouse in tropical Darwin, Australia, are dozens of trays containing cylindrical cores of rock.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 27, 2026

The warehouse ceiling was gone, and a bird soared in the sky above them.

From "Aru Shah and the End of Time" by Roshani Chokshi

He called on brands to decentralise their logistics, focus on short-term supply chains and use smaller warehouses or ones located in neighbouring countries.

From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026

Since August, the smell of burning has filled the air around the small town surrounded by warehouses, making it a prime target for Moscow.

From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026

Wildberries has started using steel netting around some of its warehouses to defend against drones.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026

The River Arts District, a string of old warehouses along the French Broad River that artists turned into studios and galleries over decades, took some of the worst of the flooding.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026

A chaotic assortment of warehouses, apartments, stores, and cafes crowded the riverfront.

From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan

“Perishables can’t be warehoused to wait out a price spike, they require diesel-dependent refrigerated trucking constantly,” Lempert said.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 10, 2026

Faced with what he thought were his only choices—being warehoused, or dying—he applied for MAID.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2025

Surplus items were warehoused, donated, or thrown away.

From Slate ● Dec. 18, 2024

In Khartoum, food, water and electricity are running out, but desperately needed aid supplies - shipped by the UN into Port Sudan - are being warehoused because the violence.

From BBC ● May 2, 2023

Then he conferred on me exceeding great favours, and I repaired to my quarter and entered my home, where I warehoused all my goods and possessions.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 06 by Sir Richard Francis Burton

Transportation and warehousing was one of the sectors with more jobs, however.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

Transportation and warehousing activity was up for a second time in three months, buoyed by increases in rail and pipeline transportation.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026

Jobs in utilities, oil and gas extraction as well as transportation and warehousing also saw strong increases in hours worked.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 10, 2026

Most recently, Amazon’s announcement in May of Amazon Supply Chain Service, a business that will provide distribution, warehousing, and last-mile delivery services, sent many logistics stocks south.

From Barron's ● Jun. 10, 2026

When our elders presented school to us, they did not present it as a place of high learning but as a means of escape from death and penal warehousing.

From "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates




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