packing
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You might think I’m an expert packer with all of this globe-trotting, but I struggle like the rest of us, even with packing cubes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
Instead he said he would grab a bite to eat in the players' restaurant before "packing up my locker just for efficiency's sake".
From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2026
Afterward, Belgium celebrated in its dressing room by performing a version of Trump’s signature dance and singing “YMCA” before packing for the quarterfinals.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 12, 2026
Zakharchenko and her family are packing up their belongings as they look for another place to rent.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026
Next, Mother told them about Stavros Sinclair packing up his paintings.
From "City Spies" by James Ponti
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
After making physical models of tetrahedrons and demonstrating the packing patterns, she convinced Dr. Lagarias that her packings were as dense as she had said they were, and finally published her findings a year ago.
From New York Times ● Jan. 5, 2010
In the early days it was difficult to procure gaskets or packings that would be both gas and water tight.
From Aviation Engines Design?Construction?Operation and Repair by Pag?, Victor Wilfred
