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But horizontally, under glass in a large table, this caught my attention: an engrossing collection of 1930s and 1940s newspaper clippings Picasso kept — he was quite the packrat — about the Hitler “degenerate” purges.

From Los Angeles Times • May 7, 2025

Anyway, if you’re a moneyed packrat with a ticket out of here, please don’t hesitate.

From Salon • Feb. 16, 2025

For them, the episode is not just a story about a presidential packrat or a sloppy filing system, but an example of how fragments of American history are at risk of being lost.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 15, 2022

“Frankly, I am a packrat and it was running away with me,” she said, “all the junk I was accumulating.”

From New York Times • Sep. 10, 2011

Not the hasty packrat cramming he'd seen at Tenth Army; everything had been brought in in order, carefully piled or racked, and then left.

From The Cosmic Computer by Piper, H. Beam