baggage

Example Sentences

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There would be stricter handling of checked baggage, including increased use of X-ray systems.

From Slate • Jul. 7, 2026

Dramatists are more cognizant than ever of the sociopolitical import of these contradictions and they’ve been chronicling the way this historically freighted baggage emerges in the drama of everyday life.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 29, 2026

Portnoy refers to this baggage as “my history.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 27, 2026

He saw this lack of baggage as a strength, once boasting that there would never be such a thing as Starmerism.

From BBC • Jun. 22, 2026

But pangenetics was overloaded with all the baggage of Darwin’s mistaken theory of hereditary instructions.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee