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part and parcel

NOUN
an essential element
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The government said the emissions are part and parcel of protecting people from “lethal or significantly debilitating infections that would result without properly sterilized medical equipment.”

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 13, 2026

Ben Jones accepts a certain amount of frustration is part and parcel of being a football fan.

From BBC • Feb. 26, 2026

He said it was all part and parcel of modern tennis.

From Barron's • Jan. 18, 2026

Research is part and parcel of graduate—and, increasingly, undergraduate—education.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 24, 2025

And that is perhaps the first and most fundamental thing that all novice oarsmen must learn about competitive rowing in the upper echelons of the sport: that pain is part and parcel of the deal.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown




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