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
There have also been questions about Amazon parcel logistics, requests to borrow cereal bowls and what tog duvet other people's children were given.
From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026
The estate’s lower parcel expands the compound even further with a stylish one-bedroom guesthouse equipped with its own kitchen, rooftop deck, and basement office and storage spaces.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 21, 2026
The parcel will be preserved for recreational use, but specific plans won’t be decided until it’s donated to a public agency, according to Robert Moddelmog, who serves as Enforcement Counsel for the Coastal Commission.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026
When the butcher returns, he's carrying a white paper parcel.
From "Girl in the Blue Coat" by Monica Hesse
While food banks are under pressure a Trussell Trust report found that they had been distributing fewer parcels in 2025 than the peak seen in 2023.
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026
Before the rule change, that was rarely checked upfront for parcels under $800 in value because of a decades-old customs exemption for low-value mail.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026
Over in Malibu, they own a beachfront abode, which is made up of two parcels.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 21, 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
And she began to search hurriedly through the parcels she was carrying, to see what she could spare for Maia.
From "Mary Poppins" by P. L. Travers
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
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
I could keep the condition in check by feeding him small meals six to eight times a day, a tablespoon of the prescription dry food parceled out one pea-sized piece at a time.
From Salon ● Mar. 5, 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
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
The insurance department, in turn, has encouraged companies to ask for all the rate increases they need at once, rather than parceling out requests over time.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 11, 2023
But the league is also parceling off more rights and three of the next seven Stanley Cup Finals to a secondary bidder.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 13, 2021
Narrative agency is what interests the author, her manner of parceling out information evoking at times the fragmentary and diaristic sensibilities of Jenny Offill’s “Dept. of Speculation.”
From New York Times ● Jan. 7, 2020
"I'm thinking of parceling off portions of my brain," I once told her.
From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris
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
Indeed, American cultural history could probably be parcelled out as a sequence of sensational murder cases.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 8, 2019
Individual land ownership is often ineffectual for forests and rangelands, which lose their value when parcelled up.
From Economist ● Jul. 14, 2016
“When a beloved parent dies, what is being parcelled out may look like goods and chattels, but it feels a lot like love,” she wrote.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 12, 2015
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
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
Few have given the Home Office credit for the amount of interesting and cheap amusement it then afforded by parcelling out the country among the military authorities.
From Essays in Rebellion by Henry W. Nevinson
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