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parcel

[pahr-suhl] / ˈpɑr səl /
NOUN
container prepared to be sent
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NOUN
piece of land
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Located in the exclusive Madison Park community, the expansive abode overlooks Lake Washington and sits on a 1.9-acre parcel.

From MarketWatch Aug. 17, 2026

“While the project followed standard approval processes for an industrially zoned parcel, we recognize the community wanted more engagement sooner, and we take that seriously,” Wehner said.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 7, 2026

In July 2024 a parcel burst into flames on the ground at Leipzig airport before it could be loaded onto a DHL cargo plane.

From BBC Aug. 5, 2026

Ukraine's ambassador Makeiev also pointed to the 2024 incident involving a DHL parcel in Leipzig.

From Barron's Aug. 5, 2026

Elinor produced a flat parcel from behind her back.

From "Inkheart" by Cornelia Funke

The 1.8-acre estate, which spans two adjacent parcels in the luxurious waterfront community, went into contract just one week after the agent began quietly marketing it.

From MarketWatch Aug. 17, 2026

Ian Driver, who runs Veterans Response and has been supporting Murray with food parcels, said the situation was "just wrong", with the veteran "surviving day to day".

From BBC Aug. 7, 2026

The development was slated to replace eight units on four parcels, according to city records.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 28, 2026

"There is just so much of it," he said, gesturing toward piles of food parcels at the protest site in the Indian capital.

From Barron's Jul. 23, 2026

Men and women, young and old, were squashed between the stalls, most of them laden with bags and parcels, everyone trying to squeeze past one another.

From "The Thief Lord" by Cornelia Funke

The acres parceled out for Stratos all lie on private, unzoned property, and the landowners there had already granted their blessing.

From Slate Jun. 1, 2026

Certain credits are parceled out quarterly or even monthly, and premium cards can have the feel of a coupon book.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 6, 2025

I scan the little slots until I find mine: a refill of Greek oregano, parceled out in a plastic baggie with a heat-sealed strip.

From Salon Aug. 26, 2025

Situated on the sunny second floor, it was one of four flats parceled out in the 1950s from a 14th-century Tuscan estate, Villa di Marignolle, that once belonged to the Medicis.

From New York Times Mar. 18, 2024

But when the lands that the agrarian reform had parceled out were returned to their former owners, they were reassured: things were returning to the good old days.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende

People are living longer, spending more on themselves and parceling out their riches in smaller doses to children and grandchildren.

From The Wall Street Journal May 5, 2026

Front-line nurses, already parceling out a few minutes an hour to each patient under their care, say juggling unfamiliar products or adjusting to workarounds makes their jobs even more fraught.

From Seattle Times Jan. 29, 2022

Narrative agency is what interests the author, her manner of parceling out information evoking at times the fragmentary and diaristic sensibilities of Jenny Offill’s “Dept. of Speculation.”

From New York Times Jan. 7, 2020

The Irvine Co. had wound down its cattle operations and was parceling out its 185 square miles of land.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 5, 2018

Or was it just more of the same parceling out of fortunes that had brought us this far, to this place where our path would finally divide into two?

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

All of Ruth's clothes and toys were parcelled up in a big box, and she reunited with her whole family who had settled in Nuneaton, Warwickshire.

From BBC Jan. 26, 2024

Just open up a page and experience the meditative calm of reading alphabetized lists that are parcelled into neat little sections.

From Slate Feb. 14, 2020

Indeed, American cultural history could probably be parcelled out as a sequence of sensational murder cases.

From The New Yorker Apr. 8, 2019

Individual land ownership is often ineffectual for forests and rangelands, which lose their value when parcelled up.

From Economist Jul. 14, 2016

That first captain walled their promontory, built their homes and shrines, and parcelled out the black land for the plow.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer

Congo-Brazzaville's government has already begun parcelling out blocks of land and looking for potential investors, although there is some uncertainty about the extent and significance of the oil reserves.

From BBC Jun. 16, 2022

Given all this filtering and parcelling out, it’s not surprising that memory is imperfect.

From The Guardian Oct. 12, 2014

And once you begin parcelling out roles rather than wrapping them together in a single nightmare bundle, it gets rather easier to find George Entwistle's successor.

From The Guardian Nov. 18, 2012

Popular in Czechoslovakia is the Government's policy of seizing the broad acres of great nobles and parcelling them out among the poor.

From Time Magazine Archive

The spectacular event was the laying of the top-stone; and in the promoter's plans a well-arranged stage-effect was of far greater value than any actual parcelling out of the land to intended settlers.

From The King of Arcadia by Francis Lynde




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