packing
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He was back on the streets between March and July 2018, packing up his tent each night and moving from pitch to pitch.
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026
But lately, they’ve been packing a limited punch.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 4, 2026
Yes, you still may savor the glory of a great player wearing your colors, but there’s a good chance they’ll be packing up shop by the time they’re 25.
From Slate ● Aug. 28, 2026
The hand-spun yarn dyed in natural colours is woven on handlooms, packing in between 300 and several thousand knots per square inch, depending on the intricacy of the design.
From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026
I go down to breakfast and see Dad packing lunches.
From "Finding Junie Kim" by Ellen Oh
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
After making physical models of tetrahedrons and demonstrating the packing patterns, she convinced Dr. Lagarias that her packings were as dense as she had said they were, and finally published her findings a year ago.
From New York Times ● Jan. 5, 2010
The series is completed by an adjusting nut to squeeze the packings, and a lock nut to prevent slipping.
From Things To Make by Archibald Williams
