packing
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Longtime folks like Sens. Gary Peters, Dick Durbin, and more are packing it in.
From Slate ● Oct. 6, 2026
I covered myself in bits of cardboard, packing tape and foam peanuts and overdid my makeup with several coats of mascara and thick black eyeliner.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026
Drolma’s team begins packing the best matsutakes into Styrofoam crates, pinching little creased pockets in the packing paper to cushion each mushroom.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026
But lately, they’ve been packing a limited punch.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 4, 2026
That night I dreamed that my family was packing to move to Fresno to pick grapes.
From "Breaking Through" by Francisco Jiménez
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
Other packings are made from the ends of belts cut out in a circular form and treated with a lubricant.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 841, February 13, 1892 by Various
