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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

The skate park ultimately opened a few blocks away, allowing the parcel to become part of an expanded campus.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026

On numerous occasions as she passed on errands, Cora overheard him lobby for the redistribution of her parcel.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead

Robots sorting parcels and serving fried chicken enthralled visitors at a robotics expo in Beijing on Wednesday, where hundreds of companies set out their pitches for a future labour market transformed by artificial intelligence.

From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 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

Because many parcels remain undeveloped in the farther reaches of Lehigh Acres, streets often contain an unorthodox mix of sleek new homes, 1970s-style ranch houses and empty, overgrown lots.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026

"Every single person I talk to is struggling to make ends meet with food parcels, with clothing the children for school, from people 20 upwards, to pensioners," she says.

From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026

She looks forward to seeing what I’ve brought, although she always frowns while opening the parcels; nothing I bring fully pleases her.

From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood

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

He was a prolific writer and he parceled out songs to people that he cared about or was working with.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 18, 2025

I could keep the condition in check by feeding him small meals six to eight times a day, a tablespoon of the prescription dry food parceled out one pea-sized piece at a time.

From Salon ● Mar. 5, 2024

None of the historical residents of Epiphany liked the idea of having the Sillington place parceled off for a subdivision.

From "The View From Saturday" by E.L. Konigsburg

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

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

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

The other is coming out of Glasgow, with the old Glasgow Central constituency being broken up and parcelled out among the surrounding city seats.

From BBC ● Jun. 6, 2024

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

Individual land ownership is often ineffectual for forests and rangelands, which lose their value when parcelled up.

From Economist ● Jul. 14, 2016

At the house, Alvarado filled Cox’s container from a five-gallon blue plastic water jug—ten litres for a hundred dollars, to be parcelled out in bottles that he would sell for three hundred apiece.

From The New Yorker ● Apr. 4, 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

There is no energy generated by the machinery: the work performed by the water in descending is merely the parcelling out and distribution of the work expended in raising it.

From Fragments of science, V. 1-2 by John Tyndall