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warehouse

[wair-hous, wair-houz, -hous] / ˈwɛərˌhaʊs, ˈwɛərˌhaʊz, -ˌhaʊs /


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According to sheriff’s officials, the owner of the business operated out of the warehouse is a suspect and the investigation is ongoing.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 2, 2026

Peterborough-based Care Zone, which has a warehouse on the edge of the city, plans to spend £80,000 this year on beds and mattresses for local families.

From BBC Sep. 1, 2026

Cleanup crews have cleared much of the millions of pounds of food left to rot after a warehouse burned for more than a week in Los Angeles.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 1, 2026

Caballero, who once chaired MIT’s economics department, argues that rising debt is challenging the ability of the intermediaries to supply the balance-sheet space, market making, and rollover capacity needed to warehouse them.

From MarketWatch Aug. 31, 2026

I used to build for fun, for the sheer pleasure of crafting a miniature warehouse, office, palace, stable, restaurant out of rubble.

From "The Rock and the River" by Kekla Magoon

The centers that look like large warehouses are crucial for artificial intelligence.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 31, 2026

They lived in makeshift apartments and partied in retrofitted warehouses.

From Salon Aug. 30, 2026

He immediately went to work clearing warehouses of unsold inventory and trimming down Apple’s list of suppliers.

From MarketWatch Aug. 29, 2026

He also described a previous proposal of increasing business rates on large warehouses to help reduce them for pubs and clubs as "delusional".

From BBC Aug. 27, 2026

We took our usual route to the market, not along the streets but through the narrow walkways between the buildings, mostly commercial warehouses and garages, that bordered the square.

From "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH" by Robert C. O'Brien

Fenley said she and other Democrats in town were concerned about having people "warehoused in a place that was not built for human habitation".

From BBC Apr. 4, 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

She also sought to ease the transition of patients from being warehoused in state mental hospitals to living independently.

From New York Times Jan. 4, 2024

The bulk of her luggage remained in Paris, warehoused, where it had been sent ere she quitted Grenoble.

From East Lynne by Mrs. Henry Wood

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

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 5, 2026

Transportation and warehousing also increased for a second straight month, largely on strength in natural gas and crude oil pipelines.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 31, 2026

Jobs in utilities, oil and gas extraction as well as transportation and warehousing also saw strong increases in hours worked.

From MarketWatch Jun. 10, 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

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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