PARCELS Synonyms: 132 Similar and Opposite Words

parcels

noun

plural of parcel

as in clusters

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 tracts

a small area of usually open land wandered around the little parcel out back

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as in properties

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 groups

a usually small number of persons considered as a unit a parcel of kids trailing at their heels

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as in bundles

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 parcels Dual-arm robots handle parcels around a conveyor and fold clothing on a work surface, while a humanoid moves through a furnished environment and collects laundry. — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 1 Oct. 2026 As those parcels are developed, the developer would need to build parking garages or reach agreements to use existing nearby parking lots. — Camryn Dadey, Sacbee.com, 1 Oct. 2026 The commission noted that all 201 parcels on Beach Road are at high risk of flooding, according to a flood insurance rate map from the Federal Emergency Management Agency. — Los Angeles Times, 28 Sep. 2026 Abraham Lincoln received two parcels of federal acreage for serving less than three months in the Black Hawk War of 1832. — Daniel Immerwahr, New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2026 These attacks have appeared in familiar settings, including parking meters, railway stations, restaurant menus and parcels. — Benjamin Claeys, Forbes.com, 25 Sep. 2026 The minimal furniture available is fashioned from wooden pallets that originally held aid parcels. — Ghada Abdulfattah, Christian Science Monitor, 25 Sep. 2026 The city owns 14,900 parcels across the five boroughs, including municipal rooftops, parking lots, and fleet depots, that can be turned into hubs of clean energy production. — Mark Levine, New York Daily News, 20 Sep. 2026 The Washington County development, from Hidden Rock and the architecture firm Woods + Dangaran, was designed around large parcels, dramatic terrain, and a relatively light touch on the landscape. — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 18 Sep. 2026

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Noun

Using data from powerful telescopes, the show will send you zooming through space with images of star clusters, black holes and much more.

— Jennifer Day, Chicago Tribune, 1 Oct. 2026
Instead, several particles stick together and form larger clusters before sulfuric acid condenses around them.

— Elizabeth Rayne, ArsTechnica, 1 Oct. 2026

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That makes the remaining relatively intact tracts especially important to preserve, according to conservation groups, particularly in a state like Illinois that has lost much of its native forests.

— Christiana Freitag, Chicago Tribune, 4 Oct. 2026
Constraints have been rising in the Nordics, where investors were drawn to large tracts of land and renewable energy.

— April Roach,Jenny Lee, CNBC, 3 Oct. 2026

Definition of tracts

Noun

Skydance would not comment, but Cheeks has been seen as a strong lieutenant overseeing the TV properties under Paramount ever since Skydance took control of the company last August.

— Michael Schneider, Variety, 2 Oct. 2026
That would be painful with any medication, Azar said, but the specific properties of pentobarbital would make the experience exceptionally uncomfortable.

— Rebecca Cohen, NBC news, 2 Oct. 2026

Definition of properties

Noun

Nine of the 10 largest individual and family donors in CNBC’s overall top 20 groups are Republican-aligned, accounting for 86 cents of every dollar contributed by the top 10, according to CNBC’s analysis of FEC records.

— Luke Fountain, CNBC, 8 Oct. 2026
Though professional society guidelines recommended against performing this biopsy on women 70 or older with early-stage cancer, other groups had reported that it was still being done.

— Allessandra DiCorato, STAT, 8 Oct. 2026

Definition of groups

Noun

There are also a couple of bike bundles which include accessories like a passenger guardrail, seat pads and foot boards, pannier bags, and a front rack.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 6 Oct. 2026
This is helped by the fact that Amazon would like to become a one-stop shop for streaming subscribers, as evidenced by recent bundles.

— Peter White, Deadline, 6 Oct. 2026

Definition of bundles

Noun

Food safety officials swept into the kitchen, scrutinizing the tandoori ovens and expiration dates on batches of butter.

— Zishaan a Latif, New York Times, 3 Oct. 2026
Zhou timed what happened between batches, and found that, during a six-hour changeover, only one hour was useful.

— Nicholas Gordon, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2026

Definition of batches

Noun

The experiment showed that the 3D field could create electron states that conventional light fields cannot readily produce.

— Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 3 Oct. 2026
The deal between Big 12 and Monster calls for a co-branded logo on football and basketball jerseys, fields and courts, and across digital and social media channels.

— ABC News, ABC News, 3 Oct. 2026

Definition of fields

Noun

There’s no winking at the audience, no sense of camp or parody, just a lot of appealing interactions, plus some wholly superfluous tertiary plots added to expand the story to series length.

— Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 8 Oct. 2026
Unsheltered intertwined two plots related to the precarity of American life and the danger of demagogues—one set at the dawn of the MAGA era.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 8 Oct. 2026