as in warehouse
a place where military arms are stored the soldier was sent to the armory to get a replacement weapon for the one that had been stolen

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Recent Examples of armory The remaining 1,700 personnel are still at nearby armories, waiting for deployment orders. Billal Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 June 2025 The government is moving to curtail the indirect supply chains that help build Russia's armory. Kate Plummer, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 July 2025 Yet could a new coalition of European confederates actually produce a nuclear stockpile capable of containing Russia, which holds the planet’s most colossal atomic armory? Kevin Holden Platt, Forbes.com, 30 June 2025 The day before the armory was officially completed and opened, the main floor and auditorium had been reserved for 16 nights out of the month of February by different organizations. Kay Johnson, Twin Cities, 7 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for armory
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Noun
  • Other units have been shipped to undisclosed customers who have put them to work in warehouses and factories.
    Bernard Marr, Forbes.com, 15 July 2025
  • The biggest warehouses in Amazon’s system are in Shreveport, Louisiana and in Massachusetts.
    Jim Cramer, CNBC, 13 July 2025
Noun
  • If these parts don't talk to each other in real time, even the best e-bus won't leave the depot on time.
    Karl Moore, Forbes.com, 18 July 2025
  • The depot was built in 1897 and remodeled in 1925 in the Spanish Colonial Revival style, according to its nomination to be on the National Register of Historic Places.
    Bill Bowden, Arkansas Online, 16 July 2025
Noun
  • In 1994, through the Budapest Memorandum, Ukraine relinquished the third-largest nuclear arsenal in the world in return for security guarantees from the U.S., U.K., and Russia.
    Andy J. Semotiuk, Forbes.com, 15 July 2025
  • The most impactful of them — the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons — was undermined in 2003 when North Korea withdrew from it and built an atomic arsenal.
    The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 14 July 2025

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“Armory.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/armory. Accessed 30 Jul. 2025.

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