as in sending
to cause to go or be taken from one place to another
packed the child off to a good boarding school
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sending
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Tim Robinson stars as a shopping-mall developer who sits on a chair that collapses onstage, sending him on a quest to track down the manufacturer.—
Savannah Salazar,
Vulture,
10 Oct. 2025 -
Angelica, too, helped shape Hamilton’s thinking, sending him Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations from a London bookshop.—
Jane Kamensky,
The Atlantic,
10 Oct. 2025
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“Packing (off).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/packing%20%28off%29. Accessed 14 Oct. 2025.
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