reservoirs

noun

plural of reservoir
as in supplies
the number of individuals or amount of something available at any given time the area boasts a large reservoir of college-educated people for companies to draw on

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Recent Examples of reservoirs California air regulators will start tracking estimates of the gases that bubble up from the state’s artificial reservoirs and contribute to climate change. — Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 27 Aug. 2026 The battle comes as decades of increasing water demand and drought in the West have caused a continual decline in water levels along the river, especially in reservoirs such as Lake Mead and Lake Powell. — James Powel, USA Today, 25 Aug. 2026 Both of its vast reservoirs — Lake Mead and Lake Powell — have tumbled to record lows over the past few weeks. — Laura Paddison, CNN Money, 25 Aug. 2026 Holding thousands of floating panels in place is another challenge, especially in reservoirs where water depths rise and fall between dry periods and heavy monsoon rains. — Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 21 Aug. 2026 Lee says the department is already working to prepare debris basins and reservoirs for the potential rainfall, especially in the burn scar areas, which are more prone to debris flows. — Chelsea Hylton, CBS News, 20 Aug. 2026 After years of water restrictions and headlines about shrinking reservoirs, a winter full of storms sounds like good news for California. — Valerie Pryor, Mercury News, 19 Aug. 2026 The water that runs through forests ends up in reservoirs that supply drinking water to millions of people in cities like Phoenix. — Sarah Henry, AZCentral.com, 19 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for reservoirs
  1. supplies
  2. inventories
  3. pools
  4. repertoires
Noun
  • The war, now stretching into its seventh month, has disrupted global energy supplies and sent shockwaves through global financial markets.
    — Anniek Bao, CNBC, 1 Sep. 2026
  • The 10-foot-tall model is available, while supplies last for $199 on the Samuel Adams website.
    — Mike Snider, USA Today, 1 Sep. 2026
Definition of supplies
Noun
  • As crude inventories in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve drain toward their operational limits, America is left, armed with just 300 million barrels.
    — Siddharth Misra, Fortune, 25 Aug. 2026
  • Missile inventories cannot refill instantly because the underlying network was never built for sudden, sustained high-volume demand.
    — Dennis Mitzner, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2026
Definition of inventories
Noun
  • Alongside the under-14s’ triumph, the under-15s won the Premier League International Tournament, showing the age-group-wide talent pools Newcastle now possess.
    — Chris Waugh, New York Times, 26 Aug. 2026
  • Dreamed up by Soho House founder Nick Jones, The Ned has nine restaurants, 15 bars, a spa, two pools and a members’ club.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 26 Aug. 2026
Definition of pools
Noun
  • By separating skill acquisition from task specification, BeyondMimic provides a route toward humanoid robots that can learn large repertoires of human movement and recombine those skills to handle new situations without task-specific retraining.
    — Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 26 Aug. 2026
  • Over the ensuing decades, the young nation incorporated the musical repertoires, instruments and expressions of immigrants from various European and African groups.
    — Ted Olson, The Conversation, 2 July 2026
Definition of repertoires

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“Reservoirs.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/reservoirs. Accessed 3 Sep. 2026.

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