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warehouse

[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

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

But then he heard the sound of two jars breaking against the brick walls of the deserted cotton warehouse beside the general store.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy

For now, though, supply-and-demand projections are taking a back seat to the question of when copper in U.S. warehouses might be released.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

There are more than 650 Costco warehouses in the U.S. alone.

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

Papa countered, gesturing out the window where wagons waited to be loaded before his warehouses.

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez

“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

My anticipations are thus confirmed: following the example of the Bembeces, the Fly-killers, the Philanthus, the Bee-killer, lays her egg on the first piece warehoused and at intervals adds to her nurselings' repast.

From More Hunting Wasps by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos

Too often across America, “schools are really about warehousing of children,” she says.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 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

Richardson is betting on music at a time when other cities — including Los Angeles — are doubling down on sports, warehousing or data centers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 4, 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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