parcel
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The parcel will be preserved for recreational use, but specific plans won’t be decided until it’s donated to a public agency, according to Robert Moddelmog, who serves as Enforcement Counsel for the Coastal Commission.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026
There was a previous proposal to develop a road through Yosemite when the 83-acre parcel outside the park had a different owner.
From Barron's ● Aug. 28, 2026
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
He chatted with Lula Gates’s mother and handed her a parcel.
From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly
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As some machines demonstrated their ability to clean or recycle objects, others showed they could deliver parcels during a live demonstration in Brussels.
From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026
Davidson analyst Gil Luria called “one of the most important parcels of real estate in the AI market.”
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 3, 2026
They targeted parcels of vineyard that represent its future: vines aged 4 to 8, old enough to bear fruit but too weak to endure the heat.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026
To access a legitimate road, she’d have to bulldoze a driveway across two other parcels.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026
While Leopard was busy trying on her new dress, Guinea Fowl and Wild Cat crept round to the place where the parcels were stored and they took the leaves off Goat’s children.
From "The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa" by Alexander Mccall Smith
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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 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
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
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
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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
As he grew in each, he assumed the role of the lovelord, parceling it out to all he came across while saving just enough for himself.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 7, 2022
Front-line nurses, already parceling out a few minutes an hour to each patient under their care, say juggling unfamiliar products or adjusting to workarounds makes their jobs even more fraught.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 29, 2022
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
Or was it just more of the same parceling out of fortunes that had brought us this far, to this place where our path would finally divide into two?
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
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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
His downfall is parcelled out carefully along the way, and each new attempt to escape his fate brings about new and awful consequences.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 20, 2019
Indeed, American cultural history could probably be parcelled out as a sequence of sensational murder cases.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 8, 2019
"It has all been a retro-rush. Weekly episodes parcelled out like old times. Cliffhangers you talked about next day by the new watercooler, Twitter."
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2018
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
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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
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Few have given the Home Office credit for the amount of interesting and cheap amusement it then afforded by parcelling out the country among the military authorities.
From Essays in Rebellion by Henry W. Nevinson
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