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granary

[gray-nuh-ree, gran-uh-] / ˈgreɪ nə ri, ˈgræn ə- /
NOUN
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Faria turned toward downtown, mentioning that business owners are trying to hang on but that the old granary by the railroad tracks closed not long ago.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 12, 2024

On Saturday, water reached warning levels and continued to rise on the Muling river in northeast China's Heilongjiang province, known as the nation's "great northern granary", the provincial hydrology office said.

From Reuters ● Aug. 5, 2023

The NHS Better Health website recommends keeping a small selection of different types of bread in the freezer like bagels, pittas and wraps, granary or multigrain.

From BBC ● Apr. 26, 2023

All she knows is that her stately home in Chellanam, which withstood the test of time for nearly a century, is corroding and her granary is empty.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 25, 2023

The newcomers needed to store their harvests for the winter, a task most efficiently accomplished with a communal granary.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

More broadly, the world is lucky that war broke out after several bountiful harvests filled granaries, says Joseph Glauber, research fellow emeritus at the International Food Policy Research Institute.

From Barron's ● Jun. 18, 2026

Many of the region’s other mountain villages were abandoned, their granaries turned into tourist attractions or, in at least one case, a “Star Wars” filming location.

From New York Times ● Jan. 19, 2023

Meanwhile, milled and paddy rice stocks at government granaries of 57.82 million tonnes are more than quadruple a target of 13.54 million tonnes.

From Reuters ● Jun. 10, 2022

Also, aid agencies can’t reach the nearby Red Sea Mills, one of Yemen’s largest granaries, where enough grain to feed 3.5 million people for a month is stored.

From Washington Times ● Oct. 4, 2018

Nor did the farmers foresee that in good years their bulging granaries would tempt thieves and enemies, compelling them to start building walls and doing guard duty.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari


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