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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.
—
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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Follow live updates and coverage on the 2026 World Cup games as the field get settled before the knockout round begins.
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Olympic gold medalist Arisa Trew secured her second winning result of the weekend with a switch McTwist — a 540-degree twist taking off from her opposite side while grabbing the middle of the board — during women’s vert best trick, which featured a field of athletes averaging only 16 1/2 years old.
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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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Some groups have pushed the council to prioritize a cleaner energy source for Naperville’s future while others have argued that leaving IMEA will cost rate payers in the long run.
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Joe Prince-Wright shares his takeaways from France's defeat of Norway to wrap up the group stage and what to expect from each team in the knockout rounds.
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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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Jinx's scheme gets a convenient helping hand when NASA — for the benefit of the plot — allows the kids to sit in an actual shuttle during an actual engine test.
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Cover crops, once rare, are now much more common, from the cooperative's member plots to estates like La Reynardière, which gives up seven or eight percent of its yield to them in the bet that living soils send roots deeper for water.
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“Parcel.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/parcel. Accessed 30 Jun. 2026.
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