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repository

[ri-poz-i-tawr-ee] / rɪˈpɒz ɪˌtɔr i /


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Finland's government has granted an operating licence for the world's first permanent repository for radioactive spent nuclear fuel, waste management company Posiva said Thursday, 22 years after construction began on the site.

From Barron's ● Oct. 22, 2026

It’s the National Security Agency, repository of advanced U.S. cyber and spyware capabilities.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

Agents built with OpenAI's models have inappropriately accessed websites maintained by US federal agencies, an Australian government health statistics portal and Hugging Face, a repository of AI models.

From Barron's ● Sep. 29, 2026

Earlier this year, AI agents were able to escape OpenAI safeguards and breach the systems of Hugging Face, a repository for open-source AI tools.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 12, 2026

His slight strangeness set him apart and made him safe as a repository.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck

Though Miller has a background in professional drafting, he first checks free digital design repositories for premade templates.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 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

Final repositories are being built in other countries, including neighbouring Sweden and France, but Finland is expected to be first to open an underground storage solution.

From Barron's ● Jun. 1, 2026

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

From Science Daily ● May 7, 2026

Toothless old people, the repositories of information in a preliterate society, could now be fed and live longer.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond


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