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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

"But several lifesaving supply lines in WHO's Aden warehouse are already at zero stock, including trauma kits and essential medicines," Heinzelmann said, appealing for more funding.

From Barron's ● Sep. 29, 2026

Currently occupying a repurposed warehouse near the farmers market, the museum is set to move to a new site with twice the gallery space in 2029.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026

But the clothes in the warehouse weren't new.

From Nazi Saboteurs by Samantha Seiple

Tons of copper piled up in U.S. warehouses, according to BMO Capital Markets, as tariff uncertainty drove buyers to snap up the metal to avoid paying higher prices later.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

There are more than 650 Costco warehouses in the U.S. alone.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

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

It was he who owned this great wharf, the warehouses, many of the fine ships tied up along it.

From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes

“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

Grains produced over a wide area have often to be collected in large quantities to be re-assorted according to quality, and to be warehoused before being placed in the market.

From The Evolution of Modern Capitalism A Study of Machine Production by J. A. (John Atkinson) Hobson

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

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

About 392,000 jobs were open across the transportation, warehousing and utilities industries in June, up by 87,000 from a year earlier, according to BLS.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 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

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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