packing
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He was back on the streets between March and July 2018, packing up his tent each night and moving from pitch to pitch.
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026
But lately, they’ve been packing a limited punch.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 4, 2026
With the potential for extreme weather––past years have seen wind storms and torrential rains—festivalgoers are packing accordingly.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
Yes, you still may savor the glory of a great player wearing your colors, but there’s a good chance they’ll be packing up shop by the time they’re 25.
From Slate ● Aug. 28, 2026
On the p of please, he spits out a packing peanut.
From "Dog Squad" by Chris Grabenstein
In 1773 physicist and mathematician Joseph Louis Lagrange found that the arrangement along a triangular lattice is optimal—so long as you only consider ordered packings.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 6, 2023
High-dimensional sphere packings are related to the error-correcting techniques used to fix garbles in the transmission of information.
From New York Times ● Jul. 5, 2022
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
Hexagonal arrangements of cells are like closest geometrical packings of disks.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 25, 2017
If the cut is unavoidably too large, packings of tin strip must be forced in with the rail on the outside.
From Things To Make by Archibald Williams
