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repository

[ri-poz-i-tawr-ee] / rɪˈpɒz ɪˌtɔr i /


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The Information reported late Wednesday that the company had struck a $12.9 billion deal to acquire Hugging Face, a repository for open-source AI tools.

From MarketWatch Aug. 27, 2026

They did so in light of OpenAI's recent admission that its AI models went out of control in an "unprecedented" way and hacked into a major repository of computer coding information.

From BBC Jul. 23, 2026

To make the information more widely available, the team has uploaded the 3D models to the online repository MorphoSource, where they can be freely accessed.

From Science Daily Jun. 17, 2026

Blasted into 1.9 billion-year-old stable bedrock in Eurajoki, southwest Finland, the geological repository for spent nuclear waste -- dubbed Onkalo which means "cave" in Finnish -- is nearly ready to start operations.

From Barron's Jun. 1, 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

In Norway, Cohen explains that the data center is “one of the central repositories of human memory.”

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 10, 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

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

From Science Daily May 7, 2026

Over a third of the repositories have received updates in the past month.

From Barron's Mar. 19, 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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