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packing

[pak-ing] / ˈpæk ɪŋ /
NOUN
material used to fill space
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Now she and her family were packing their bags to go to a shelter to wait out Trudy.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 18, 2026

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

Our eyes catch, and I remember one time, when he and his ex-girlfriend Cassie were sitting together on the bench near Cassie’s and my lockers while I was packing up my stuff.

From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison

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

Slowly it would be levered up, and packings or wedges of wood or stone inserted.

From Stonehenge Today and Yesterday by Heywood Sumner


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