packing
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My fiancé and I spent a sweltering summer in New York City touring fifth-floor walkup apartments, and then packing up our belongings and moving them to a new place a few blocks away.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 11, 2026
American inspectors in Michoacán, who monitor plantations and packing plants to ensure the fruit is pest-free, occasionally have found themselves in the cross-hairs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
It brings vegetal sweetness, salt, smoke and nubby creaminess without requiring anyone to roast and peel peppers before packing the cooler.
From Salon ● Jul. 30, 2026
That means automating picking, handling and eventually packing goods.
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026
If Nan was searching for fun in the silverware drawers, we’d be packing up sooner than I thought.
From "Hope Springs" by Jaime Berry
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
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
His archives contain all sorts of investigations of possible packings and their properties, together with actual cardboard polyhedra, still ready to assemble:
From Scientific American ● Oct. 25, 2017
The headphones were not out of box; they had been a post-Christmas return & were in their original box & inner packings & plastic wrappings untouched by human hands.
From New York Times ● Feb. 12, 2016
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
