warehouse
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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
A June 17 fire at cold storage operator Lineage’s 500,000-square-foot food warehouse left neighbors dealing with noxious smoke and an influx of rats and flies.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 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
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
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Thanks to long-term government contracts, it is now boom time across the roughly 1 square mile of factories, warehouses and offices that occupy a part of Tucson’s main airport.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 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
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
Amazon said it would spend more than $100 million on a new robotics factory near Indianapolis as it automates more of the work inside its warehouses.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
The train crawls along; it judders past warehouses and water towers, bridges and sheds, past modest Victorian houses, their backs turned squarely to the track.
From "The Girl on the Train" by Paula Hawkins
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“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
"You're seeing people basically get warehoused because the courts can't deal with the demand."
From BBC ● Feb. 17, 2025
Surplus items were warehoused, donated, or thrown away.
From Slate ● Dec. 18, 2024
Then they unloaded them and warehoused the goods whilst the merchants' wives went up with Ali's family to the saloon, which they found as it were a luxuriant garden, spread with magnificent furniture.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 05 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
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
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
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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