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packing

[pak-ing] / ˈpæk ɪŋ /
NOUN
material used to fill space
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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

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

In Gmail, Siri compiled a packing checklist from a school email.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026

Anything to keep me from packing curry dinners at home.

From "A Place at the Table" by Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan

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

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

Unless the trunnion packings be well compressed, they will be likely to leak air, and it is, therefore, necessary to pay particular attention to this condition.

From A Catechism of the Steam Engine by John Bourne, C.E.


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