briefcase
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I came across a briefcase I hadn’t opened in I don’t know how long.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026
He also did not mention that three men had visited their hotel room that night, one holding a briefcase, and spent an hour there before they helped the prophet load bags into his car.
From BBC ● May 22, 2026
George aero-commutes in a glass-domed saucer that folds into a briefcase, and still manages to get stuck in traffic.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 30, 2026
He carried a script he was writing in a slim briefcase, which he’d shuttle back and forth from the brand-new Starbucks down the street.
From Salon ● Nov. 23, 2025
His grip on his briefcase tightens when he sees her.
From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern
I fell in with a nerdy set—a small group of academically minded boys who carried their books in briefcases.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 19, 2026
He opened briefcases and huge chests with bundles of cash.
From Barron's ● Nov. 13, 2025
By now employees with briefcases, obviously managers, had arrived for the day, and her excuses were wearing thin.
From Slate ● Jul. 22, 2025
The Cold War section includes one of the two briefcases left by Guy Burgess at his London club, when he fled to Moscow in 1951 with fellow spy Donald Maclean.
From BBC ● Apr. 1, 2025
There was a little of everything: suitcases, briefcases, bags, knives, dishes, banknotes, papers, faded portraits.
From "Night" by Elie Wiesel
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