parcel
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“This is really part and parcel of completing that jigsaw puzzle,” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026
It started with a single stolen mobile phone, found inside a sealed parcel, inside a warehouse near Heathrow airport.
From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026
They purchased the first parcel in 1989 for $3.3 million and picked up the second in 2000 for $3.2 million.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 21, 2026
"It's not really about raising funds. It's about getting our own Africans generally to be part and parcel of this refinery," Dangote said.
From Barron's ● Sep. 7, 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
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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
Volunteer Isabel said she wanted to give back to the centre after she was helped with food parcels and clothing.
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026
Even the Postal Service added a fuel and transportation surcharge on parcels for the first time earlier this year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026
But parliament is struggling to approve suggested laws, which include unpopular measures such as imposing duties on parcels from abroad, intended to boost revenues.
From Barron's ● Sep. 12, 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
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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
Most of that funding has been parceled out in grants of $50,000 or less, and more than half of that funding flowed directly to individual states’ humanities councils.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 5, 2025
Situated on the sunny second floor, it was one of four flats parceled out in the 1950s from a 14th-century Tuscan estate, Villa di Marignolle, that once belonged to the Medicis.
From New York Times ● Mar. 18, 2024
No longer were the university’s resources, parceled out at a few hundred dollars at a time, sufficient for his purposes.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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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
Front-line nurses, already parceling out a few minutes an hour to each patient under their care, say juggling unfamiliar products or adjusting to workarounds makes their jobs even more fraught.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 29, 2022
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
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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
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
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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
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The too frequent practice of parcelling out common lands, and large estates, originally beneficial in itself, has produced similar consequences in other states.
From The American Quarterly Review No. XVIII, June 1831 (Vol 9) by Various
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