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Final repositories are being built in other countries, including neighbouring Sweden and France, but Finland is expected to be first to open an underground storage solution.

From Barron's • Jun. 1, 2026

Places like these become repositories of memory, carrying traces of different eras inside them.

From BBC • May 25, 2026

Is it a spoiler to share that a tsunami has wiped out most of Europe, leaving scattered archipelagos as repositories of things once known?

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 8, 2025

Until now, biomedical scientists needed enormous computing resources to search through these vast genetic repositories and compare them with their own data, making comprehensive searches nearly impossible.

From Science Daily • Oct. 28, 2025

Toothless old people, the repositories of information in a preliterate society, could now be fed and live longer.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond