storehouse

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Testing the technique in fruit flies, the researchers found that 51 proteins voyaged from the animals’ muscles to their heads and 269 moved from the fat body, the insects’ main energy storehouse, to their legs.

From Science Magazine • May 22, 2024

Mona said that she had seen people breaking into a UN agency storehouse because "they were so hungry, they have nothing to eat".

From BBC • Dec. 8, 2023

This means that atoms contain a colossal storehouse of energy — "atomic energy," as it was called at first, although "nuclear energy" is more common today.

From Salon • Aug. 12, 2023

In 2013, a storehouse that was built on top of the cemetery more than 500 years earlier was converted into a parking garage.

From New York Times • Nov. 30, 2022

Nhamo went to the hozi, the communal storehouse, to fetch mealies.

From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer