parcel
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She was given her first by her parents when she was eight, in Christmas 1932, and remembers waking up and seeing a huge parcel all wrapped up.
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026
“While the project followed standard approval processes for an industrially zoned parcel, we recognize the community wanted more engagement sooner, and we take that seriously,” Wehner said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
Ukraine's ambassador Makeiev also pointed to the 2024 incident involving a DHL parcel in Leipzig.
From Barron's ● Aug. 5, 2026
With all the donations, the San Bernardino Mountains Land Trust can purchase the parcel, as well as cover closing costs, taxes, legal fees and some maintenance of the land.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026
The air smelled like fresh bread, apples, parcel paper, and string, and I saw rows and rows of wrapped chocolates living behind glass.
From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron
The 1.8-acre estate, which spans two adjacent parcels in the luxurious waterfront community, went into contract just one week after the agent began quietly marketing it.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 17, 2026
Ian Driver, who runs Veterans Response and has been supporting Murray with food parcels, said the situation was "just wrong", with the veteran "surviving day to day".
From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026
The development was slated to replace eight units on four parcels, according to city records.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026
The EU has taken several measures to confront soaring imports from China including doubling its duties on foreign steel, slapping higher levies on small parcels from abroad and hefty tariffs on Chinese-made electric vehicles.
From Barron's ● Jun. 29, 2026
To the right they passed patches of mangrove forest and small parcels of land, rice paddies, and chili pepper fields.
From "Tiger Boy" by Mitali Perkins
The acres parceled out for Stratos all lie on private, unzoned property, and the landowners there had already granted their blessing.
From Slate ● Jun. 1, 2026
Certain credits are parceled out quarterly or even monthly, and premium cards can have the feel of a coupon book.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2025
I scan the little slots until I find mine: a refill of Greek oregano, parceled out in a plastic baggie with a heat-sealed strip.
From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2025
The bill would create 250,000 green card-eligible family and employment-based visas that would be parceled out over five years.
From New York Times ● Feb. 5, 2024
By the end of the meeting, design tasks were already being parceled out.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
In the run-up to “One Battle After Another,” DiCaprio played the traditional role of the elusive movie star, parceling out access and promotional appearances.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 12, 2026
California became an agricultural powerhouse by taming its rivers and parceling out their flows.
From New York Times ● Jan. 18, 2024
Inside the Weggs’ yellow colonial, on five acres north of Indianapolis, Rodney had been parceling out limited information.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 21, 2021
A parliamentary investigative committee questioned Akoub about that deal, as well as real-estate repossession and the parceling off of state land.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 11, 2019
"I'm thinking of parceling off portions of my brain," I once told her.
From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris
Just open up a page and experience the meditative calm of reading alphabetized lists that are parcelled into neat little sections.
From Slate ● Feb. 14, 2020
Individual land ownership is often ineffectual for forests and rangelands, which lose their value when parcelled up.
From Economist ● Jul. 14, 2016
At the house, Alvarado filled Cox’s container from a five-gallon blue plastic water jug—ten litres for a hundred dollars, to be parcelled out in bottles that he would sell for three hundred apiece.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 4, 2016
Meanwhile, residents such as Majoor and Felicia are watching an area they love being parcelled up and sold off, along with its sense of community.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 15, 2016
That first captain walled their promontory, built their homes and shrines, and parcelled out the black land for the plow.
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
Congo-Brazzaville's government has already begun parcelling out blocks of land and looking for potential investors, although there is some uncertainty about the extent and significance of the oil reserves.
From BBC ● Jun. 16, 2022
Given all this filtering and parcelling out, it’s not surprising that memory is imperfect.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 12, 2014
And once you begin parcelling out roles rather than wrapping them together in a single nightmare bundle, it gets rather easier to find George Entwistle's successor.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 18, 2012
Popular in Czechoslovakia is the Government's policy of seizing the broad acres of great nobles and parcelling them out among the poor.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was in this manner that the parcelling of "The Estate" began.
From The Heritage of the Kurts, Volume I (of 2) by Bj?rnstjerne Bj?rnson
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