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as in cluster
a number of things considered as a unit
her absurd explanation for the collision was a parcel of lies
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as in property
a small piece of land that is developed or available for development
subdivided the huge farm into smaller parcels for sale
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as in group
a usually small number of persons considered as a unit
a parcel of kids trailing at their heels
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Recent Examples of parcel
As of April 2025, Cainiao said its autonomous vehicles had delivered more than 40 million parcels, accumulated more than 5 million kilometers of self-driving experience and were deployed in more than 30 counties and municipal-level regions in China.
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Glenn Taylor,
Footwear News,
24 June 2026
The city’s Appeals Hearing Board held a meeting on June 11 to consider next steps for the blighted parcel.
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George Avalos,
Mercury News,
24 June 2026
The first is an intensifying focus on terroir, as both producers and consumers zero in on parcel, village and sub-zone.
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Paul Caputo,
Forbes.com,
23 June 2026
Because developers are squeezing more housing units onto each parcel of land.
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Greg Rosalsky,
NPR,
23 June 2026
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Glenn Taylor,
Footwear News,
24 June 2026
The city’s Appeals Hearing Board held a meeting on June 11 to consider next steps for the blighted parcel.
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George Avalos,
Mercury News,
24 June 2026
The first is an intensifying focus on terroir, as both producers and consumers zero in on parcel, village and sub-zone.
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Paul Caputo,
Forbes.com,
23 June 2026
Because developers are squeezing more housing units onto each parcel of land.
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Greg Rosalsky,
NPR,
23 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for parcel
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Potential profits have encouraged traffickers to ship massive amounts of illicit drugs to both countries, often across the Pacific Ocean from South America via the Pacific Islands, a loose cluster of thousands of islands and atolls.
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NielsenIQ data shows that Hispanic consumers tend to be driven by brand trust, family influence and cultural identity—in ways that never surface in behavioral clusters.
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That might be a tall order on the field after Lionel Messi’s record-tying hat trick against Algeria led Argentina to victory on Tuesday.
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Pepi, Antonee Robinson and Malik Tillman formed a triangle on one side of the field, with Balogun, Weston McKennie and Sergiño Dest aligned on the other side.
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Firefighters stopped forward progress on a roughly 35-acre grass fire sparked by weed abatement Thursday afternoon on private property just east of Sacramento near Camellia Memorial Lawn, authorities said.
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Among the properties preserved is the town's only pharmacy, which recently reopened.
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Video and images of about 150 strikes against Russian fuel tankers, trucks and other vehicles have been geolocated and analyzed by French open-source analyst Clément Molin and the volunteer-run OSINT group Geoconfirmed, as well as CNN’s OSINT team.
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TourScoop coversguided group tours and tour operators,tour operator reviews,tour itinerary reviews andtravel gear recommendations.
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Many also include birthday party packages, scout patch programs and family classes where adults cook alongside their kids.
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Management cited its recent formal launch of FedEx Life Science, which provides specialized transportation services for the health-care industry, where packages can be both time- and temperature-sensitive, as well as accelerating growth in artificial intelligence.
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The North Shore Mosquito Abatement District announced Wednesday that a batch of mosquitoes collected Thursday, June 18, from a trap in Glenview tested positive for West Nile in the district's lab five days later.
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Today, now working with master distiller Hervé Grangeon, Vodkress remains a small-batch, craft spirit (only 7,000 liters are produced each year), available at select venues, such as the Surf Club in Miami and chef Bruno Verjus’s Parisian eatery, Table.
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For most people with urinary tract infections (UTIs), a short course of antibiotics is the go-to treatment.
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The land was among the biggest tracts left in the area that had not been at least partially preserved, and the good news, conservation-wise, was that Soloviev had agreed to sell the development rights to the town for 75 percent of the land, meaning that most of it would remain farmland for good.
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The plot was foiled when a suspect’s mother alerted police, court documents said.
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And the plot thickens… as it was buried, interestingly, in a former Roman military settlement, and typically, these were buried in locations infused with the supernatural.
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“Parcel.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/parcel. Accessed 27 Jun. 2026.
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