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warehouse

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


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KYIV, Ukraine—As six Ukrainian drones buzzed toward a Russian army warehouse in occupied eastern Ukraine on Monday, the pilots found their connections disrupted.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

The man, who asked to remain anonymous, said he had been a warehouse worker for three years.

From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2026

"They're living the high life," said the 32-year-old warehouse manager.

From Barron's ● Oct. 19, 2026

Raman, for her part, said the mayor had been “missing in action” during the massively destructive Palisades fire in January 2025 and the more recent Lineage cold storage warehouse blaze in Boyle Heights.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2026

Once they’d snuck into a rave in a disused warehouse down in the Flats and danced until three, glow necklaces ringing their wrists and their throats.

From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng

With their legal status under TPS, many Haitians took on low-paid jobs in factories and distribution warehouses.

From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2026

Other planned investments include spending on Amazon Leo, which aims to provide high-speed internet via a network of satellites, and upgrading the company's retail and logistics warehouses to use more robotics.

From Barron's ● Oct. 20, 2026

Kit can remain in warehouses or athletes' garages without entering a waste stream where it can be counted.

From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026

But it turned into one of the many challenges bedeviling the company’s decadelong, multibillion-dollar quest to automate its warehouses.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

Finally, the brakes squeaked in protest and the taxi came to a lurching halt alongside a row of deserted warehouses.

From "Shooting Kabul" by N. H. Senzai

“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

Fenley said she and other Democrats in town were concerned about having people "warehoused in a place that was not built for human habitation".

From BBC ● Apr. 4, 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

The lower passions and vices were regularly ticked off in the books, warehoused in the cells, carted away as per accompanying invoice, and left little mark upon it.

From Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

In warehousing specifically, those humanoids will cost about $10 to $12 per hour to operate — a big saving over the $30 per hour for human labor.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 25, 2026

Transportation and warehousing also increased for a second straight month, largely on strength in natural gas and crude oil pipelines.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 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

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

Milo’s mess halls would not even help him store the cotton, and his warehousing costs skyrocketed and contributed to the devastating drain upon his cash reserves.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller


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