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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

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

The answer, she’d find, involves insulated bags, cold packs, hotel-freezer favors and strategic packing.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026

Even if Evans does not get an opportunity to construct Version 2.0 of the Expos, life has been good since McCourt sent him packing.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026

With each moment the crowd around us would swell, packing the nearby platforms, hanging over the edges, until the high structures groaned and swayed.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

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

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

The coil and guides must be adjusted so that the plunger does not touch the coil anywhere during a stroke, packings being placed, if necessary, under coil or guides.

From Things To Make by Archibald Williams


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