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packing

[pak-ing] / ˈpæk ɪŋ /
NOUN
material used to fill space
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Longtime folks like Sens. Gary Peters, Dick Durbin, and more are packing it in.

From Slate ● Oct. 6, 2026

Work on their Texas property was finally completed in November, although Biles and Owens didn’t officially move in until February, after packing up their Chicago residence following the end of the Bears’ season.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 28, 2026

Even if Evans does not get an opportunity to construct Version 2.0 of the Expos, life has been good since McCourt sent him packing.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026

In Gmail, Siri compiled a packing checklist from a school email.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026

I rose from where I had been kneeling beside a crate and brushed bits of packing straw off my apron.

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu

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

High-dimensional sphere packings are related to the error-correcting techniques used to fix garbles in the transmission of information.

From New York Times ● Jul. 5, 2022

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

Valetta, however, cried on, and Mysie went the length of repairing to her mother, in the midst of her last notes and packings, to entreat to change with Val, who followed on tip-toe.

From Beechcroft at Rockstone by Charlotte Mary Yonge


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