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package

[pak-ij] / ˈpæk ɪdʒ /
NOUN
parcel
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NOUN
container
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"The phone was ringing in the package," explains Commander Andy Featherstone, the Metropolitan police's lead on mobile phone theft.

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026

Some Gerans include a seeker guidance package that allows the onboard computer to guide the drone in the final flight phase, after a human operator initially selects the target.

From Salon ● Sep. 24, 2026

You typically only get access to this lounge with the Five Star Select package, or if you’re flying in a Flagship cabin.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026

A provision tucked inside this year’s federal spending package allows Medicare coverage of one multicancer early-detection test per year starting in 2028 if the test is FDA-approved.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026

Make the loans, then sell them off to the fixed income departments of big Wall Street investment banks, which will in turn package them into bonds and sell them to investors.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

Further shipments were intercepted and officers used forensics on the packages to identify two men, who were placed under surveillance.

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026

On First Light, however, Ms. Brauer has to unstrap, shove across and resecure heavy packages before she can risk the same exercise.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

Ukraine, for its part, has focused on modular AI-driven packages, including chips with embedded software and sometimes cameras, that it can install widely across drone and other platforms.

From Salon ● Sep. 24, 2026

That distinction became even clearer when the team studied chromatin, the material that packages DNA inside cells and helps control which genes are available for use and which remain inaccessible.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 21, 2026

They passed the celestial-blue Stariary, the Institute's post office, where star messengers transported envelopes and parcels and packages throughout the Marvellian world.

From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton

A musician with frontman good looks, he’s about to be packaged into a rock star.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

When a gamble gets packaged into an investment vehicle like an ETF, it might not feel like a gamble.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

By altering these histones, acetyl-CoA can loosen the way DNA is packaged.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 14, 2026

Remains from the World Trade Center have been packaged and sealed to help preserve DNA for testing in the years to come.

From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026

If not, Gey packaged up another batch and tried again.

From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot

We’re all taking our private experiences and packaging them up for public consumption on Facebook and Instagram and Twitter and Reddit, and I think we gain something from that, or we wouldn’t do it.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026

For example final assembly is done in so-called packaging houses, which are clustered in Taiwan.

From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026

I should disclose that I am helpless in the face of good food packaging.

From Salon ● Sep. 20, 2026

Sugary cereals generally appear on lower shelves in the grocery store, where children can see the cheery packaging and grinning cartoon mascots.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026

Tip: Use only green apple candies, then dip them in melted caramel and let them rest on wax paper before packaging.

From "Hope Springs" by Jaime Berry




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