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[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

Jobs brought his trademark product-development focus to Apple’s retail stores, joining Mr. Johnson for regular drives to a warehouse in which a secret mock-up of an Apple store would regularly be revised.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

Just the day before, the building was being used as a warehouse for the ECO Market chain.

From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026

It’s one of those places that looks like a nightclub shoved into a warehouse, with oddly geometric light fixtures and a menu that changes every day.

From "What If It's Us" by Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera

Customers, including Black shopkeepers who didn’t have access to credit, visited his warehouses to pick up produce and other items and pay with cash, a model that cut delivery and distribution costs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 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

The River Arts District, a string of old warehouses along the French Broad River that artists turned into studios and galleries over decades, took some of the worst of the flooding.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026

We’d load up the trailer full of goods from the warehouses and drive though the Dismal Swamp around Portsmouth and No folk.

From "The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother" by James McBride

“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

Surplus items were warehoused, donated, or thrown away.

From Slate ● Dec. 18, 2024

In Khartoum, food, water and electricity are running out, but desperately needed aid supplies - shipped by the UN into Port Sudan - are being warehoused because the violence.

From BBC ● May 2, 2023

The Best Resolutions in the world would be contaminated if they were all warehoused under one roof.

From The Zankiwank and The Bletherwitch An Original Fantastic Fairy Extravaganza by S. J. Adair Fitzgerald

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

Key details: More jobs were available in transportation, warehousing, package delivery and even the federal government.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 4, 2026

The Logistics Managers’ Index, a monthly survey of supply-chain managers, showed inventory, transportation and warehousing costs all increased in May compared with April.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 16, 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

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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