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part and parcel

NOUN
an essential element
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The private-credit boom has been part and parcel of a broader embrace of risk.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 29, 2026

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

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

From Barron's Jan. 18, 2026

Passing sentence, Judge Peters KC told them that as drivers and lookouts, they were "part and parcel" of the conspiracy.

From BBC Nov. 21, 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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