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parcel

[pahr-suhl] / ˈpɑr səl /
NOUN
container prepared to be sent
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NOUN
piece of land
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The minister said prosecutors were investigating a suspect in Romania, who is being held in connection with planned parcel bomb attacks there.

From BBC Aug. 21, 2026

“While the project followed standard approval processes for an industrially zoned parcel, we recognize the community wanted more engagement sooner, and we take that seriously,” Wehner said.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 7, 2026

Ukraine's ambassador Makeiev also pointed to the 2024 incident involving a DHL parcel in Leipzig.

From Barron's Aug. 5, 2026

Outside, the parcel is lined with dozens of palm trees to ensure complete privacy, while a dramatic gated courtyard provides an idyllic place to relax away from prying eyes.

From MarketWatch Jul. 27, 2026

Inside was a waxed paper parcel containing a thick roast beef sandwich.

From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly

A dedicated e-commerce facility has processed more than 33 million parcels since opening in May last year, with Royal Mail and Evri establishing on-site operations.

From BBC Aug. 27, 2026

Since 2008, the authority has spent about $15 billion purchasing thousands of land parcels and building giant overpasses, rail beds, walls and other concrete structures that now loom over California’s Central Valley.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 26, 2026

The tsunami of parcels generated by low-cost e-commerce giants has also been dealt a fresh blow by the scrapping of US tax exemptions for individual shipments valued less than $800.

From Barron's Aug. 24, 2026

The 1.8-acre estate, which spans two adjacent parcels in the luxurious waterfront community, went into contract just one week after the agent began quietly marketing it.

From MarketWatch Aug. 17, 2026

“Nothing at all, madam,” he assured her, as he put the parcels into her arms and bowed again.

From "Mary Poppins" by P. L. Travers

The acres parceled out for Stratos all lie on private, unzoned property, and the landowners there had already granted their blessing.

From Slate Jun. 1, 2026

Certain credits are parceled out quarterly or even monthly, and premium cards can have the feel of a coupon book.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 6, 2025

A bare-bones framework of an agreement, sketched out on a single sheet of paper, the deal promises $125 million for a journalism fund that will be parceled out to local newsrooms over five years.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 20, 2024

General Ryder said that 569 metric tons of aid had made it onto Gaza’s shore but that those supplies had yet to be parceled out by humanitarian organizations.

From New York Times May 21, 2024

His mail shirt and helm were parceled out.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin

In the run-up to “One Battle After Another,” DiCaprio played the traditional role of the elusive movie star, parceling out access and promotional appearances.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 12, 2026

The insurance department, in turn, has encouraged companies to ask for all the rate increases they need at once, rather than parceling out requests over time.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 11, 2023

But the league is also parceling off more rights and three of the next seven Stanley Cup Finals to a secondary bidder.

From Seattle Times Mar. 13, 2021

Narrative agency is what interests the author, her manner of parceling out information evoking at times the fragmentary and diaristic sensibilities of Jenny Offill’s “Dept. of Speculation.”

From New York Times Jan. 7, 2020

Or was it just more of the same parceling out of fortunes that had brought us this far, to this place where our path would finally divide into two?

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

Just open up a page and experience the meditative calm of reading alphabetized lists that are parcelled into neat little sections.

From Slate Feb. 14, 2020

Indeed, American cultural history could probably be parcelled out as a sequence of sensational murder cases.

From The New Yorker Apr. 8, 2019

"It has all been a retro-rush. Weekly episodes parcelled out like old times. Cliffhangers you talked about next day by the new watercooler, Twitter."

From BBC Sep. 23, 2018

The Ottomans’ former Arab possessions were parcelled out as “mandates” under the new League of Nations: France got Syria and Lebanon while Palestine, Iraq and Transjordan went to Britain.

From The Guardian Feb. 16, 2017

That first captain walled their promontory, built their homes and shrines, and parcelled out the black land for the plow.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer

Congo-Brazzaville's government has already begun parcelling out blocks of land and looking for potential investors, although there is some uncertainty about the extent and significance of the oil reserves.

From BBC Jun. 16, 2022

Given all this filtering and parcelling out, it’s not surprising that memory is imperfect.

From The Guardian Oct. 12, 2014

And once you begin parcelling out roles rather than wrapping them together in a single nightmare bundle, it gets rather easier to find George Entwistle's successor.

From The Guardian Nov. 18, 2012

Popular in Czechoslovakia is the Government's policy of seizing the broad acres of great nobles and parcelling them out among the poor.

From Time Magazine Archive

His abode had been saved from the parcelling out of several Georgian estates.

From The Card, a Story of Adventure in the Five Towns by Arnold Bennett




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