knapsack
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They strapped on a machine that looks a bit like a knapsack and provides a robotic boost for the lower back.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 31, 2024
The Champagne — worth $2,900 in all — was pulled out of Gonzalez’ knapsack and returned to the guests who had ordered it, according to prosecutors.
From Seattle Times ● May 15, 2023
Adelekan said the man’s knapsack was blown up in a controlled explosion after the suspect told officers to handle it with care.
From Washington Times ● May 3, 2023
Her 3-year-old daughter played with a knapsack of toys on the floor.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2022
Instead he pulled out a paperback world almanac from his knapsack and asked her to quiz him.
From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri
The blaze was brought under control by 22:30 using jets, beaters and knapsacks.
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2025
They tried to stay clean and healthy, stopping as often as they could at laundromats to empty their tattered knapsacks, filled with weeks-old dirty clothing and sleeping bags, into washing machines.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 19, 2021
Out to test the police response to a peaceful campout in the heart of the beast, this platoon, singing and laughing, had barely opened their knapsacks when the police materialized.
From Salon ● Oct. 30, 2021
Sunlight streams in through the floor-to-ceiling windows, which, in concert with the white walls dotted with aspirational goods -- $20 magazines, natty knapsacks -- suffuses the space with a celestial glow.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 20, 2015
By the time I got the money doled out, the boys were dressed and Mrs. Diamant was stuffing empty bottles into knapsacks, because there was no water coming from the pipes.
From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron
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