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packet

[pak-it] / ˈpæk ɪt /


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Two decades earlier, Lindy, for her part, made a smash, and a packet, with “My Rainbow Starts With Black,” a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, seemingly based on her own dysfunctional family, and its Oscar-winning film adaptation.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2026

When light strikes many carbon based materials, it creates a tightly bound packet of energy called an exciton -- a paired electron and hole.

From Science Daily • Mar. 6, 2026

Shiroma pays them $2 per packet, which cuts into her normal profit of $6.70 per mailer.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 1, 2026

"Will MLAs have to wait a year and threaten to go on strike to get the money or will it slide into their pay packet very quickly?"

From BBC • Feb. 20, 2026

On January 1, 1812, a short but cordial note went out from Quincy to Monticello, relaying family news and referring to two pieces of Homespun coming along by separate packet.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis




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