Question: What's the easiest way to separate a list into a list of xy points?

Just something simple.  What's the easiest way to seaparate a list into a list of xy points?

I had come up with 

a:=[1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2]:


b:=[seq([a[2*i-1],a[2*i]],i=1..nops(a)/2)]
                                                                       b := [[1, 2], [3, 4], [5, 6], [7, 8], [9, 8], [7, 6], [5, 4], [3, 2]]

Are there other ways?

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