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

From Slate ● Oct. 19, 2026

Padilla said postal inspectors intercepted a suspicious parcel addressed to his office, according to reports.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 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

Elliott, a 69-year-old professor of nutrition in the Florida university system, had paid for add-ons that let her choose to parcel out payments over her lifetime or to her heirs—options she never exercised.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 2026

Behind him, Hooper’s hands scrabbled about in the parcel, splitting open a paper bag.

From "I'm the King of the Castle" by Susan Hill

This week, the Bishop of Meath Tom Deenihan was filmed preparing parcels of the evidence gathered on Fr Doyle, ready for Vatican inspection.

From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026

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

The acquisition included four parcels totaling roughly seven acres and two residences, with the centerpiece being an enormous nine-bedroom waterfront mansion.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 6, 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

He heaved a pile of parcels onto Harry’s camp bed and dropped the money bag and a load of socks next to it.

From "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" by J. K. Rowling

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

Situated on the sunny second floor, it was one of four flats parceled out in the 1950s from a 14th-century Tuscan estate, Villa di Marignolle, that once belonged to the Medicis.

From New York Times ● Mar. 18, 2024

I could keep the condition in check by feeding him small meals six to eight times a day, a tablespoon of the prescription dry food parceled out one pea-sized piece at a time.

From Salon ● Mar. 5, 2024

She kept 48 hives strewn through the woods around the pink house, and another 280 were parceled out on various farms, in river yards and upland swamps.

From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd

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

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

Camelot, which has run the lottery since it was launched in 1994, has nothing to do with the way the money is parcelled out.

From BBC ● Dec. 26, 2021

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

The spectacular event was the laying of the top-stone; and in the promoter's plans a well-arranged stage-effect was of far greater value than any actual parcelling out of the land to intended settlers.

From The King of Arcadia by Francis Lynde


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