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the money paid regularly to a person for labor or services
his monthly wage packet contained just enough to allow him to rent a one-bedroom flat
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Recent Examples of packets
The packets of seeds are added to a sealable plastic bag or a jar with an air-tight lid.
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Brian Bell, The Orlando Sentinel, 3 Jan. 2026
In Hong Kong for example, married family members give red packets containing cash to children and teenagers, according to the Royal Museums Greenwich in London.
—Saman Shafiq, USA Today, 2 Jan. 2026
Instead, small bags of chips or packets of oatmeal can be transferred into an open bin, and the boxes can be broken down and recycled to reclaim precious real estate.
—Mary Cornetta, Better Homes & Gardens, 25 Dec. 2025
The telecom networks originally built to carry phone calls and packets of data are in the midst of a dramatic shift.
—IEEE Spectrum, 22 Dec. 2025
The quantum emitter enigma Quantum emitters work by releasing single photons, individual packets of light, on demand.
—Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 14 Dec. 2025
To make cleaning easier, use slow cooker liners, parchment paper, or aluminum foil to line the stoneware pot or create packets for items like chicken.
—Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 28 Nov. 2025
It will be served with two jelly packets and margarine spread.
—Raechal Shewfelt, Entertainment Weekly, 27 Nov. 2025
The dishes were served with skim milk, margarine spread and sugar-substitute packets.
—Ingrid Vasquez, PEOPLE, 5 Nov. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for packets
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That said, multiple companies are exploring more creative bundles with a goal of reducing churn and offering better value.—
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Tiny bundles of data—relayed on the app’s servers through sockets, or continuous connections—tell you that your best friend is typing.—
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Any such players who did not agree to deals with their respective teams will now go to an arbitration hearing, where their 2026 salaries will be determined.—
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Players with more than three years of service time can use arbitration to negotiate their salaries for an upcoming season, and Skubal has more than five years in.—
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Budding Joy Fabric Storage Bags 6-Pack These fabric storage bags have been purchased more than 10,000 times in the past month alone.—
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Reviewers rate it five stars for spaciousness and durability after schlepping the bags around on a 10-city odyssey, toting them on trains and buses for a month, and, in one case, dragging them over gravel for miles.—
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Essentially, if robots can build houses, grow food, manufacture goods, and even provide services like health care and education at a near-zero cost then wages stop being the mechanism that determines who gets what.—
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The contract would be reopened prior to the fourth fiscal year of the agreement, 2028-29, to resolve wages for that budget cycle.—
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To keep this important cog in the development wheel turning, Goodspeed budgets carefully, sells a lot of tickets (including weekend passes and packages with dinner options) and attracts patrons who give donations specifically to the festival.—
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Prosecutors wrote in a sentencing memo that Harris took steps to conceal ordering steroids by arranging for packages to be delivered to a pseudonym at another address, and said his false application for a home loan — all while employed as a police officer — compounds his criminal responsibility.—
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Instead, Saks struggled to execute a turnaround, faced mounting debt and reportedly fell behind on vendor payments, straining relationships with luxury labels and shrinking assortments.—
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The Workforce Solutions for Tarrant County — one of multiple workforce boards statewide that distributes this funding on behalf of the Texas Workforce Commission — shared Friday that subsidy payments are expected to be issued as normal, which is every two weeks.—
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The service projects will include packing winter hygiene kits for neighbors struggling, snack packs and cancer care kits.—
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Some modeling clay will come in blocks of different weights and sizes, while variety packs will usually include smaller blocks of varying tones and colors.—
Cite this Entry
“Packets.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/packets. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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