packs (off)

verb

present tense third-person singular of pack (off)
as in sends
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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  1. sends
  2. ships
Verb
  • The home’s whole-house speaker system sends music clear out to the tennis court, front yard and pool.
    — David Caraccio, Sacbee.com, 22 Aug. 2026
  • The ruling sends the case back to San Mateo County, where the district attorney’s office will have 60 days from the date the ruling was finalized to decide whether to retry the case, said San Mateo County District Attorney Stephen Wagstaffe.
    — Caelyn Pender, Mercury News, 21 Aug. 2026
Definition of sends
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  • Porky Pig and Daffy Duck aren’t celebrities but second-class citizens forced to order their shoddy goods from Acme, a monopoly that ships everything in oddly familiar blue and brown boxes.
    — Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 26 Aug. 2026
  • The result can take many forms—a product team that ships a working prototype before commissioning user research, or a strategy leader who presents a direction and asks which assumptions are wrong instead of asking which direction to take.
    — Nataliya Andreychuk, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2026
Definition of ships
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“Packs (off).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/packs%20%28off%29. Accessed 29 Aug. 2026.

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