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packing

[pak-ing] / ˈpæk ɪŋ /
NOUN
material used to fill space
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As a young woman in the 1920s, she disguised herself as a man and worked on a local archaeological dig at the Roman Villa Casale until she was ratted out and sent packing.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 21, 2026

One project in the works: a buffalo mac and cheese packing 40 grams of protein for GLP-1 users trying to stave off muscle loss.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 19, 2026

I knew I needed to downsize before I started packing, so I began by identifying unwanted belongings to sell.

From MarketWatch Aug. 11, 2026

Chinatown librarian Lynn Nguyen leads a group of teens in packing and delivering a variety of fresh produce and food to people in need throughout Chinatown.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 4, 2026

For the first time in her life she was packing.

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

Valetta, however, cried on, and Mysie went the length of repairing to her mother, in the midst of her last notes and packings, to entreat to change with Val, who followed on tip-toe.

From Beechcroft at Rockstone by Charlotte Mary Yonge




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