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parcel

[pahr-suhl] / ˈpɑr səl /
NOUN
container prepared to be sent
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NOUN
piece of land
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The measure would levy an annual parcel tax in Pasadena of 19 cents per square foot of improved property, with exemptions for low-income homeowners.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 2026

Aymann: I think it’s part and parcel of the Muslim American experience.

From Slate ● Oct. 19, 2026

"It's the same, you know, the precious parcel on the trolley is the same as the precious parcel in the car. You have to get all of those steps right."

From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026

The property, known as Hazel Green Ranch, is an undeveloped parcel of meadowland.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026

If the nosy neighbor weren't here, Mrs. de Vries would insist on inspecting the contents of the parcel.

From "Girl in the Blue Coat" by Monica Hesse

However, Bass later rolled back the directive in some areas, including single-family parcels, historic districts and very high fire severity zones.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

Six years ago, 26 rare reptiles - 10 of them dead - smuggled inside parcels of toys and sweets from Mexico, were found by customs officials at Cologne Bonn Airport.

From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026

But cities and towns can shrink that figure: In Houston, for instance, real-estate developers can build on parcels as small as 1,400 square feet.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 13, 2026

James Frakes of Los Angeles downloaded Muse to field incoming Facebook Marketplace inquiries on vacant parcels of land he sells.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026

Leopard, who was pleased with herself in her new dress, did not bother to find out where her children were and had no idea that they were inside the parcels which she was carrying.

From "The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa" by Alexander Mccall Smith

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

People are living longer, spending more on themselves and parceling out their riches in smaller doses to children and grandchildren.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 5, 2026

The insurance department, in turn, has encouraged companies to ask for all the rate increases they need at once, rather than parceling out requests over time.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 11, 2023

But the league is also parceling off more rights and three of the next seven Stanley Cup Finals to a secondary bidder.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 13, 2021

Narrative agency is what interests the author, her manner of parceling out information evoking at times the fragmentary and diaristic sensibilities of Jenny Offill’s “Dept. of Speculation.”

From New York Times ● Jan. 7, 2020

A dark night was falling, one of a different order from the soft, large, kind ones of childhood under the anacahuita tree, Pap£ parceling out futures and Mama fussing at his drinking.

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez

Golden rice fields stretch across the Vercelli plain between Milan and Turin, a parcelled landscape broken only by the wood and wetlands created by Cerutti, now home to rare birds and insects.

From Barron's ● Oct. 12, 2026

All of Ruth's clothes and toys were parcelled up in a big box, and she reunited with her whole family who had settled in Nuneaton, Warwickshire.

From BBC ● Jan. 26, 2024

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

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

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

Then he conceals the assumption by parcelling out the accidental modification in a supposed series of transitional stages.

From At the Deathbed of Darwinism A Series of Papers by Edwin V. O'Harra


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