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packing

[pak-ing] / ˈpæk ɪŋ /
NOUN
material used to fill space
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The answer, she’d find, involves insulated bags, cold packs, hotel-freezer favors and strategic packing.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026

Even if Evans does not get an opportunity to construct Version 2.0 of the Expos, life has been good since McCourt sent him packing.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026

But lately, they’ve been packing a limited punch.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 4, 2026

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

Sounds like something Gran might put in our orange juice at breakfast…I really should start packing.

From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin

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

On Monday, Ms. Chen, the University of Michigan graduate student, posted a new preprint, which describes a family of packings that include the latest Cornell and Princeton structures.

From New York Times ● Jan. 5, 2010

The shelves were bare and only a litter of packings remained to mark the end of the chemist's great enterprise.

From The Heart of Unaga by Ridgwell Cullum




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