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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 package
a wrapped or sealed case containing an item or set of items received a mysterious parcel in the mail

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Recent Examples of parcel The approved rezoning on Rowe Loop will allow for the creation of a new neighborhood across two parcels of land that provides more dense housing. Mason Rouser, Austin American Statesman, 2 July 2025 Plans for a few parcels in block E, one of the largest blocks on the 23 acres, will also be announced shortly. Sydney Franklin, The Enquirer, 2 July 2025 The entire parcel is about 100 acres, with the portion comprising the library and events center about one-fifth of that. Brian Bell, The Orlando Sentinel, 27 June 2025 Back when the parcel was acquired for development in the 1980s by the real-estate investor and abstract-art collector Ben Heller, neighboring property owners unsuccessfully sued to keep him from situating a house so close to the pond. Andrew Rice, Curbed, 26 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for parcel
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Noun
  • The team’s genetic analysis focused on the Hox cluster: a family of genes found widely across the animal kingdom that fundamentally control an organism’s physical development.
    Christian Thorsberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 July 2025
  • Just as with Windows antivirus tools, there are two main pricing clusters for a single-year Mac antivirus subscription, one around $40 and one around $50.
    PC Magazine, PC Magazine, 10 July 2025
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  • Baseball’s technical folks put three-dimensional images on the Truist Park field of the Los Angeles Dodgers players at their positions from that night of April 8, 1974 at old Atlanta Fulton County Stadium.
    Terence Moore, Forbes.com, 16 July 2025
  • Today, descendants of these Austin projects stand alongside AMD, Samsung, Oracle, Apple, Meta, Google, Intel, Amazon, Silicon Labs, Microsoft, Tesla, SpaceX and other giants in the field.
    Michael Barnes, Austin American Statesman, 15 July 2025
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  • While California’s property and sales and excise taxes rank near the middle of the country, its individual income tax burden is second only to New York.
    David Lightman July 7, Sacbee.com, 7 July 2025
  • Local stakeholders, include Lauren Bailey, the co-founder and CEO of Upward Projects, the restaurant group that created Postino, Federal Pizza and other concepts, whose office is located in one of the rotunda buildings on the property.
    Corina Vanek, AZCentral.com, 7 July 2025
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  • The Zero Emission Transportation Association was among the lobbying groups that bashed the legislation last week.
    Sasha Hupka, AZCentral.com, 9 July 2025
  • As the director of programs for global animal rescue group SPCA International, Kalef is well versed in the transportation of animals.
    Jamie L. LaReau, Freep.com, 9 July 2025
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  • It’s also sold online, particularly during the holiday season as gift packages.
    Gary Stern, Forbes.com, 11 July 2025
  • By building out a strong logistics network, JD had set a standard in the market for same-day or next-day delivery of packages, pressuring competitors like Alibaba.
    Dylan Butts,Evelyn Cheng, CNBC, 11 July 2025
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  • Half of the batch of 42 adoptable animals went home with new families, according to a news release from the fair.
    Olivia Petty, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 July 2025
  • These pipelines must evolve beyond rigid batch jobs toward flexible, scalable flows that support high-volume and low-latency requirements.
    Shinoy Vengaramkode Bhaskaran, Forbes.com, 7 July 2025
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  • That could negate the need for costly and invasive methods of GI tract investigation – like endoscopy and computerized tomography (CT) – that can only be used in hospitals.
    Abhimanyu Ghoshal, New Atlas, 12 July 2025
  • The hospital also had a failing score for urinary tract infections from catheters.
    Scott Schwebke, Oc Register, 12 July 2025
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  • The songs, the plot, the characters — the performances are first rate, but the actors depend deeply on the movie’s performances to inform their own — and of course the DeLorean.
    Jed Gottlieb, Boston Herald, 13 July 2025
  • Though plot details for Wake Up Dead Man remain tightly under wraps, audiences can expect the return of the shrewd detective parsing through yet another murderous mystery.
    Natalie Oganesyan, Deadline, 12 July 2025

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“Parcel.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/parcel. Accessed 21 Jul. 2025.

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