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warehouse

[wair-hous, wair-houz, -hous] / ˈwɛərˌhaʊs, ˈwɛərˌhaʊz, -ˌhaʊs /


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Flavio, touching his arm, declared to a cheering crowd in a Sao Paulo warehouse.

From Barron's Jul. 25, 2026

In 2022, his company, Isle of Wight Materials, supplied much of the fill for a three-million-square-foot Amazon fulfillment warehouse in Suffolk, Va.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 25, 2026

Residents describe the conditions they’ve been living in nearly a month after a fire damaged a cold storage food warehouse in Boyle Heights.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 25, 2026

Between 2020 and May 2026, Comwel ruled that 46 warehouse and delivery workers, including Jang, died of a stroke or heart disease that count as work-related deaths.

From BBC Jul. 24, 2026

In the middle of the night on April 22, 1956, American agents guarding the Berlin Tunnel warehouse observed movement on the street located just above the tap site, in the Soviet sector.

From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau

"Other people have been sleeping in schools and warehouses and the beaches have had people just waiting for the go ahead," Morrison added.

From BBC Jul. 25, 2026

She has said Wildberries was "focused on redistributing" across its warehouses and "ensuring the financial stability of our partners."

From Barron's Jul. 24, 2026

In total, around half her inventory was destroyed in the strikes on the warehouses near Moscow and in southern Russia, costing more than $160,000.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 23, 2026

The movie’s vision of Los Angeles isn’t typical: warehouses in the Valley, back alleys in downtown.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 23, 2026

We proceeded along the street, marching warily to avoid the assaults of guile unmoved by the fear of bombardment; the shops and warehouses to either side of us were evidently deserted.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

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

She also sought to ease the transition of patients from being warehoused in state mental hospitals to living independently.

From New York Times Jan. 4, 2024

Washington officials and advocates have been locked in a legal struggle for nearly a decade over how to ensure people with mental illnesses aren’t being warehoused in jails while their court cases stall.

From Seattle Times Jun. 16, 2023

Visible Ploughmen and Hammermen there have been, ever from Cain and Tubalcain downwards: but where does your accumulated Agricultural, Metallurgic, and other 130Manufacturing Skill lie warehoused?

From Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Carlyle, Thomas

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

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

Richardson is betting on music at a time when other cities — including Los Angeles — are doubling down on sports, warehousing or data centers.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 4, 2026

And transportation and warehousing, which has been among the sectors most affected by tariffs, and where men outnumber women three to one.

From The Wall Street Journal May 11, 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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