luggage
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luggage
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Explanation
Luggage is anything you use to carry your things with you on a trip. If you're backpacking across Asia, your only luggage is the pack on your back. Suitcases are luggage, and if you pack a trunk full of gifts to bring your family in India, that's luggage too. When you arrive at an airport after a flight, you might have to wait a while to pick up your checked luggage. Luggage comes from lug, or "drag," the way you sometimes have to lug your luggage onto a train or bus.
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It uses facial recognition to identify passengers and scans carry-on luggage coming in and out of the country.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
Carry-on luggage destined for the aircraft cabin is also X-rayed, and pilots pass through metal detectors.
From Barron's ● Oct. 1, 2026
His pursuers managed to track Marset to Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia’s economic hub, by planting a GPS tracker in his girlfriend’s luggage as she traveled through Brazil, according to U.S. court filings.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026
He stowed four blocks in his checked luggage and slowly worked through them.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026
You could tell from the piles of luggage, the boxes containing radios and kitchen appliances, the sacks full of things like disposable diapers.
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
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