packing
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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
The second morning of the trip, I had time for a leisurely lakefront breakfast, one-hour hike, sightseeing tips from a lodge employee and packing while the Kia charged to 100%.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026
Longtime folks like Sens. Gary Peters, Dick Durbin, and more are packing it in.
From Slate ● Oct. 6, 2026
A packing list, the indictment said, showed they were shipped from the Los Angeles area to the Malaysian capital of Kuala Lumpur.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026
They go check things out rather than packing up their stuff, giving a big ol’ nope, and leaving.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
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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
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
After making physical models of tetrahedrons and demonstrating the packing patterns, she convinced Dr. Lagarias that her packings were as dense as she had said they were, and finally published her findings a year ago.
From New York Times ● Jan. 5, 2010
The truck is furnished with legs under which packings can be wedged so as to relieve the load on the wheels when block-setting.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 312, December 24, 1881 by Various
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