parcel
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With its combination of celebrity ownership, rich entertainment history, and unusually large parcel of land in the Hollywood Hills, the estate represents one of the area’s rare legacy properties.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 13, 2026
China’s higher parcel volume also seems resilient, given the company’s full-year guidance of 10% growth and muted sector growth, they add.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026
However, that out-of-date abode is located on a stunning parcel of land that covers more than 16 acres, including 4-plus acres of “income-producing Cabernet Sauvignon,” according to its previous listing.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 2, 2026
The parcel carrier is scheduled to report fiscal 2026 fourth-quarter earnings after the closing bell Wednesday.
From Barron's ● Jun. 23, 2026
Then they had all turned up one day at his home address in Canada in one big parcel.
From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo
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She runs an organisation supporting other women who have been detained, and, using a secret network, helps send parcels from families to those still in captivity.
From BBC ● Jul. 6, 2026
The EU has taken several measures to confront soaring imports from China including doubling its duties on foreign steel, slapping higher levies on small parcels from abroad and hefty tariffs on Chinese-made electric vehicles.
From Barron's ● Jun. 29, 2026
On a sunny February day, a group of a half dozen neighbors lined up for Red Cross parcels of essentials such as food and hygiene products.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
During a series of hearings, witnesses called as development experts pored over maps of the campus to identify several parcels to spread the housing into separate villages.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 10, 2026
And she began to search hurriedly through the parcels she was carrying, to see what she could spare for Maia.
From "Mary Poppins" by P. L. Travers
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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
A bare-bones framework of an agreement, sketched out on a single sheet of paper, the deal promises $125 million for a journalism fund that will be parceled out to local newsrooms over five years.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2024
General Ryder said that 569 metric tons of aid had made it onto Gaza’s shore but that those supplies had yet to be parceled out by humanitarian organizations.
From New York Times ● May 21, 2024
But when the lands that the agrarian reform had parceled out were returned to their former owners, they were reassured: things were returning to the good old days.
From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende
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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
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
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
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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All of Ruth's clothes and toys were parcelled up in a big box, and she reunited with her whole family who had settled in Nuneaton, Warwickshire.
From BBC ● Jan. 26, 2024
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
Individual land ownership is often ineffectual for forests and rangelands, which lose their value when parcelled up.
From Economist ● Jul. 14, 2016
“When a beloved parent dies, what is being parcelled out may look like goods and chattels, but it feels a lot like love,” she wrote.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 12, 2015
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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The lands remaining after this parcelling out, generally the poorest, formed the waste lands of the manor, over which rights of commons were enjoyed by the tenants.
From Legal Lore Curiosities of Law and Lawyers by Various
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