briefcase
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briefcases
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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
Who cares what happens to the Danes’ precious briefcase?
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 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
He said he always had an entrepreneurial flair, selling bubblegum and popcorn from his Samsonite briefcase at Jamaica High School.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 18, 2026
And then my eye fell on the briefcase, stuffed with names and addresses.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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
There’s a moment in the movie where you have one of those metal briefcases and you start banging it against the wall over and over until it finally breaks open.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 2025
By now employees with briefcases, obviously managers, had arrived for the day, and her excuses were wearing thin.
From Slate ● Jul. 22, 2025
Several men and one woman, all wearing business suits and carrying briefcases, were talking to the uniformed men.
From "Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High" by Melba Pattillo Beals
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