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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Riquelme Vega, a Chilean Dutch cocaine importer also in the Super Cartel, wanted to murder a rival in Dubai by sending a team of Colombian assassins to the Emirates, Kinahan voiced his disapproval.—
Ed Caesar,
New Yorker,
30 Apr. 2026 -
Right now, engineers need to understand, as coders sending things into the real world, how their work is affecting people.—
Christopher McFadden,
Interesting Engineering,
29 Apr. 2026
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“Packing (off).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/packing%20%28off%29. Accessed 2 May. 2026.
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