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packing

[pak-ing] / ˈpæk ɪŋ /
NOUN
material used to fill space
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Just over a year on he is packing boxes and looking around the empty rooms after he quit his tenancy with the pub's owner, Stonegate Group.

From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026

Longtime folks like Sens. Gary Peters, Dick Durbin, and more are packing it in.

From Slate ● Oct. 6, 2026

Work on their Texas property was finally completed in November, although Biles and Owens didn’t officially move in until February, after packing up their Chicago residence following the end of the Bears’ season.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 28, 2026

I covered myself in bits of cardboard, packing tape and foam peanuts and overdid my makeup with several coats of mascara and thick black eyeliner.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026

“I thought I told you to have this packing done yesterday.”

From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer

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

His archives contain all sorts of investigations of possible packings and their properties, together with actual cardboard polyhedra, still ready to assemble:

From Scientific American ● Oct. 25, 2017

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

Unless the trunnion packings be well compressed, they will be likely to leak air, and it is, therefore, necessary to pay particular attention to this condition.

From A Catechism of the Steam Engine by John Bourne, C.E.


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