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warehouse

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


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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

The stench is similar to what residents in Boyle Heights have said they’ve endured for more than two months after a fire broke out in the massive cold-storage warehouse in June.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 31, 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

When he reached the neighborhood where he lived he passed through a certain narrow street that was flanked on one side by a smoke-blackened brick warehouse.

From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers

But Ukraine has responded by striking Russian infrastructure, ports and even e-commerce warehouses.

From Barron's Sep. 2, 2026

They lived in makeshift apartments and partied in retrofitted warehouses.

From Salon Aug. 30, 2026

“Physical AI gives Nvidia a path from data centers into the much larger physical economy—vehicles, factories, warehouses and robots,” said Michael Frank, chief executive of intelligence startup Radiant Intel.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 29, 2026

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

From MarketWatch Aug. 29, 2026

The low buildings and warehouses around the train tracks threw long shadows.

From "The Honest Truth" by Dan Gemeinhart

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 Trueblood Settlement, named for Cassie Cordell Trueblood, a public defender and plaintiff in the original case, aimed to prevent detained people from being warehoused in jail before they’ve had a fair trial.

From Seattle Times Jun. 13, 2023

The lower passions and vices were regularly ticked off in the books, warehoused in the cells, carted away as per accompanying invoice, and left little mark upon it.

From Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

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

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 28, 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

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

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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