packing
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Marking the last week of production on site, a company spokesperson said: "A significant milestone was reached this week, as operations across production and packing came to an end."
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
Yes, you still may savor the glory of a great player wearing your colors, but there’s a good chance they’ll be packing up shop by the time they’re 25.
From Slate ● Aug. 28, 2026
The hand-spun yarn dyed in natural colours is woven on handlooms, packing in between 300 and several thousand knots per square inch, depending on the intricacy of the design.
From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026
Rising shipments of high-end optical transceivers and growing adoption of technologies such as near-field packing and co-packaged optics are likely growth drivers, they say in a note.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
If Nan was searching for fun in the silverware drawers, we’d be packing up sooner than I thought.
From "Hope Springs" by Jaime Berry
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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
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
The coil and guides must be adjusted so that the plunger does not touch the coil anywhere during a stroke, packings being placed, if necessary, under coil or guides.
From Things To Make by Archibald Williams