parcel
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Citi analyst Ariel Rosa sees value in parcel shipping stocks heading into the holiday shopping season.
From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026
Ellison’s property is the third-largest oceanfront parcel in Palm Beach County.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 5, 2026
“This is really part and parcel of completing that jigsaw puzzle,” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026
A vibrant pantomime-style atmosphere is part and parcel of the darts experience and Dutch and German crowds are amongs the most raucous - but it is clear Littler believes he has been unfairly targeted.
From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026
Harry ripped the parcel open and gasped as a magnificent, gleaming broomstick rolled out onto his bedspread.
From "Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban" by J.K. Rowling
Residents will retain their post office box numbers and continue picking up parcels downtown.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026
The acquisition included four parcels totaling roughly seven acres and two residences, with the centerpiece being an enormous nine-bedroom waterfront mansion.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 6, 2026
Before the rule change, that was rarely checked upfront for parcels under $800 in value because of a decades-old customs exemption for low-value mail.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026
Ukrposhta does more than just collect letters and parcels.
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026
Guinea Fowl, though, realized the danger that they were in, and she whispered to Goat and Wild Cat that they should all run away before the parcels were taken out of the pot.
From "The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa" by Alexander Mccall Smith
Down: We’re writing Season 5 right now, and without giving too much away, we’re approaching that season very differently in terms of how information’s parceled out.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 15, 2026
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
I scan the little slots until I find mine: a refill of Greek oregano, parceled out in a plastic baggie with a heat-sealed strip.
From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2025
But when the lands that the agrarian reform had parceled out were returned to their former owners, they were reassured: things were returning to the good old days.
From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende
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
California became an agricultural powerhouse by taming its rivers and parceling out their flows.
From New York Times ● Jan. 18, 2024
As he grew in each, he assumed the role of the lovelord, parceling it out to all he came across while saving just enough for himself.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 7, 2022
Inside the Weggs’ yellow colonial, on five acres north of Indianapolis, Rodney had been parceling out limited information.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 21, 2021
A dark night was falling, one of a different order from the soft, large, kind ones of childhood under the anacahuita tree, Pap£ parceling out futures and Mama fussing at his drinking.
From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez
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
Individual land ownership is often ineffectual for forests and rangelands, which lose their value when parcelled up.
From Economist ● Jul. 14, 2016
When St Valentine was parcelled up and posted around the world, it was natural a piece of him was sent to St John's.
From BBC ● Feb. 12, 2016
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
Death’s name is much more mighty than his deeds: Thy parcelling this power hath made it more.
From A Study of Shakespeare by Edmund Gosse
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