luggage
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luggage
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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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Inspections of the passengers, luggage, and the aircraft yielded negative results, and the alert has since been cleared.
From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026
Sterling Hayden’s Johnny Clay, having endured all manner of complications, watches helplessly as a suitcase full of stolen money spills off a luggage cart.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026
The 26-year-old man crashed the vehicle that was used to haul luggage and tried to take another vehicle in the airfield, but was detained by Airport Police Services, a spokesperson for John Wayne Airport said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 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
Once they arrive in Manila, the captain tells the passengers to leave their luggage on board and find a place to stay in the city on the off chance the Grant is attacked while docked.
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
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