packing
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Longtime folks like Sens. Gary Peters, Dick Durbin, and more are packing it in.
From Slate ● Oct. 6, 2026
I covered myself in bits of cardboard, packing tape and foam peanuts and overdid my makeup with several coats of mascara and thick black eyeliner.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026
He doesn’t loosen up until, after another hour of bundling and packing, the last of the boxes is sealed up.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026
"We started this a few months ago after newspapers were not allowed for packing as it's bad for health," he says.
From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026
Nhamo saw Crocodile Guts packing a string bag: He put in a pipe, fishing lines, and a reed flute she remembered him playing as he waited for fish to blunder into his net.
From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer
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
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
