backpack
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Maryland: Clothing and shoes under $100 and the first $40 of a backpack purchase are exempt from sales tax Aug. 9-15.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 23, 2026
"I watched a little girl crying with a little pink backpack on because she's never going to see her father again."
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026
"Like everyone else, we're on standby, vehicles ready and a backpack packed. All we can do is wait," he said.
From Barron's ● Jul. 13, 2026
In the video, the man was wearing a black, 25-liter Ozark Trail Hiker backpack, according to the FBI.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 23, 2026
Before Llewelyn could answer, a golden light shot out of Danny’s backpack.
From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova
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We also donate monthly to a food bank that provides backpacks filled with food for children to take home over the weekend.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 20, 2026
There, on a crowded train during the evening rush hour, on the night of a Knicks game, I was surrounded by a nuisance I’ve been meeting all too often lately: backpacks.
From Salon ● Jun. 13, 2026
In the first, players held purple school backpacks decorated with bows.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 8, 2026
Capybara merch is wildly popular in the zoo’s gift shops, which sell 25,000 capybara-themed items a year: almost 7,000 plush toys, plus keychains, backpacks, cups, caps, bottles, slippers, and lamps.
From Slate ● May 27, 2026
I nudge Max and we keep dodging elbows and backpacks, moving from one crosswalk to the next.
From "The Sky at Our Feet" by Nadia Hashimi
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After he graduated, they transitioned from being at college together to dating long-distance while Mr. Reimers backpacked around the world.
From New York Times ● Feb. 18, 2022
“I’m so happy to be back,” said Monica Macri, as she led her line of energetic, masked and backpacked fourth-graders toward their designated school entrance.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 1, 2021
Or that I haven’t backpacked in 13 years.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 8, 2021
Tock grew a beard, borrowed a Volkswagen van and backpacked through Western national parks with a friend.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 27, 2019
Some ding-dongs believe me, though, and when that happens, I keep the lie going, spinning it until I run out of ideas: I backpacked through France, Germany, and Spain with my rich aunt from Barcelona.
From "I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter" by Erika L. Sánchez
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I saw these and many other otherworldly species while on a life-changing backpacking trip to the island five years ago, which I chronicled for this newspaper.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2026
The Gatlinburg, Tenn., company offers special viewing tours and backpacking trips in Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 3, 2026
She got a job, found a partner, started running, and booked backpacking trips.
From BBC ● Mar. 20, 2026
Loktev hasn’t completed a film since 2011’s “The Loneliest Planet,” which starred Gael García Bernal and Hani Furstenberg as soon-to-be-wed lovers backpacking through the Georgian countryside, their seemingly close bond shattered after a harrowing encounter.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 25, 2025
“Yes, when the weather is good they go backpacking all the time — even the doctor. They’re all real outdoorsy,” she told me quietly, examining her shoes, too.
From "Twilight" by Stephenie Meyer
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