packing
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"It was a very difficult winter last year in Kyiv," says mother of two Mariia Shostak, who is now packing her bags and leaving her small flat.
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026
Longtime folks like Sens. Gary Peters, Dick Durbin, and more are packing it in.
From Slate ● Oct. 6, 2026
Work on their Texas property was finally completed in November, although Biles and Owens didn’t officially move in until February, after packing up their Chicago residence following the end of the Bears’ season.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 28, 2026
I covered myself in bits of cardboard, packing tape and foam peanuts and overdid my makeup with several coats of mascara and thick black eyeliner.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026
They go check things out rather than packing up their stuff, giving a big ol’ nope, and leaving.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
In 1773 physicist and mathematician Joseph Louis Lagrange found that the arrangement along a triangular lattice is optimal—so long as you only consider ordered packings.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 6, 2023
In geometry, he made key discoveries in the study of symmetries, sphere packings, lattices, polyhedra and tilings, including properties of quasi-periodic tilings as developed by Roger Penrose.
From Nature ● May 22, 2020
His archives contain all sorts of investigations of possible packings and their properties, together with actual cardboard polyhedra, still ready to assemble:
From Scientific American ● Oct. 25, 2017
The headphones were not out of box; they had been a post-Christmas return & were in their original box & inner packings & plastic wrappings untouched by human hands.
From New York Times ● Feb. 12, 2016
The shelves were bare and only a litter of packings remained to mark the end of the chemist's great enterprise.
From The Heart of Unaga by Ridgwell Cullum
