packet
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While it’s probably a good idea to try and rely a bit less heavily on packaged snack foods, there’s no major danger from allowing your tiny humans to have their regular packet of fish-shaped crackers.
From Slate ● Sep. 14, 2026
If done right, it could save you a packet.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 25, 2026
Sonia says she was never paid her final pay packet and is owed £2,300.
From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2026
There, Chip stands in front of the cheese case for a moment, brushing past the string cheese and the Parmesan shakers before settling on a packet of American singles.
From Salon ● Jun. 30, 2026
“Throughout history,” he explained in the Library Olympics welcome packet, “too many books have been burned by people who didn’t like what was written inside them.”
From "Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics" by Chris Grabenstein
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The school had no toilet for female students and expired food packets were being used to prepare lunches.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
Liquid IV is paying for its packets to pop up inside bridesmaid goody bags.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026
Light delivers energy to the material in discrete, or quantized, packets known as photons.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 28, 2026
Open my pantry and you’ll see a glorious sight of orange and pink packets lining the middle shelf.
From Salon ● Jul. 19, 2026
Max and I asked for extra snacks last night so we've got a few packets of graham crackers and a few apple juice cups with foil lids as well.
From "The Sky at Our Feet" by Nadia Hashimi
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The Poles, who spend the day in swimming shorts or underwear, change into their baggy uniforms and hunt-and-peck on the typewriters, turning out reports to be packeted to Can Tho.
From Time Magazine Archive
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She spoke the last three words aloud in her intensity, so bitterly, that the two men, packeting together the papers, turned quickly.
From Little Miss By-The-Day by Lucille Van Slyke
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