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packing

[pak-ing] / ˈpæk ɪŋ /
NOUN
material used to fill space
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Longtime folks like Sens. Gary Peters, Dick Durbin, and more are packing it in.

From Slate ● Oct. 6, 2026

Richard Uihlein, chief executive of the shipping and packing supplies company Uline, has given the campaign $17 million.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026

In Gmail, Siri compiled a packing checklist from a school email.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026

Although the alleged activity in the Los Angeles dwelling wasn’t enough to send Madison packing, she has recently opened up about her desire to relocate to lighten the load on her coparenting situation.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 3, 2026

Some were doing chores on deck or in the galley, but most were down in the hold, packing the salted herring into empty barrels.

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood

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

Hexagonal arrangements of cells are like closest geometrical packings of disks.

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

I received material from a number of industrial plants which sold the same article in a variety of packings.

From Psychology and Industrial Efficiency by Hugo Münsterberg




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