packing
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"We started this a few months ago after newspapers were not allowed for packing as it's bad for health," he says.
From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026
But lately, they’ve been packing a limited punch.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 4, 2026
Yes, you still may savor the glory of a great player wearing your colors, but there’s a good chance they’ll be packing up shop by the time they’re 25.
From Slate ● Aug. 28, 2026
The hand-spun yarn dyed in natural colours is woven on handlooms, packing in between 300 and several thousand knots per square inch, depending on the intricacy of the design.
From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026
“We’ll start packing first thing,” Nan said, blew a kiss, and shut my door.
From "Hope Springs" by Jaime Berry
In 1773 physicist and mathematician Joseph Louis Lagrange found that the arrangement along a triangular lattice is optimal—so long as you only consider ordered packings.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 6, 2023
In geometry, he made key discoveries in the study of symmetries, sphere packings, lattices, polyhedra and tilings, including properties of quasi-periodic tilings as developed by Roger Penrose.
From Nature ● May 22, 2020
Hexagonal arrangements of cells are like closest geometrical packings of disks.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 25, 2017
On Monday, Ms. Chen, the University of Michigan graduate student, posted a new preprint, which describes a family of packings that include the latest Cornell and Princeton structures.
From New York Times ● Jan. 5, 2010
Woven wire and asbestos packings impregnated with rubber, red lead, graphite and other filling materials were more satisfactory than the soft sheet asbestos, but were prone to burn out if the water supply became low.
From Aviation Engines Design?Construction?Operation and Repair by Victor Wilfred Pag?
