packing
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While packing cinemas around the world, "The Odyssey" has generated public debate and criticism.
From Barron's ● Jul. 28, 2026
Sarah was excitedly packing up to move out of the terraced house her family had outgrown to a four-bedroom home in the countryside.
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026
England adjusted its strategy to protect its lead, packing the front of goal.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 6, 2026
With a towering performance, Norway’s star striker Erling Haaland sent Brazil packing in the round of 16, hammering home two goals in a 2-1 victory.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 5, 2026
He is trapped in a sea of foamy white packing peanuts.
From "Dog Squad" by Chris Grabenstein
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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
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
The headphones were not out of box; they had been a post-Christmas return & were in their original box & inner packings & plastic wrappings untouched by human hands.
From New York Times ● Feb. 12, 2016
The shelves were bare and only a litter of packings remained to mark the end of the chemist's great enterprise.
From The Heart of Unaga by Cullum, Ridgwell