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backpack

[bak-pak] / ˈbækˌpæk /
NOUN
sack carried on the back
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You can never have enough snacks in your backpack on the road.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

The grainy footage, which has no audio, is said to show her wearing a yellow shirt, a baseball cap and a backpack while browsing items, including Molly the bird.

From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026

In one clip, a police officer can be seen finding a gun magazine in a backpack belonging to Mangione.

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026

The brief social media clip features Gizmo rustling around inside a backpack in an indiscernible location.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026

Mrs. Contreras had bought him a new backpack to replace the one that was ripping apart, but nothing could cheer him up.

From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova

“Every time we were scouting by boat, we would take our backpacks with us,” Mungiu recalls.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

Photos shared with the Journal showed strollers, children carrying colorful backpacks and their parents among the passengers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

Sheets, backpacks, and outstretched bodies transform the emblematic seafront promenade into an open-air dormitory for a few hours.

From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026

Reducing the idea to the point of absurdism, Gill asked Hartig if the cartoon character on countless children’s backpacks was “racist.”

From Salon ● Jul. 23, 2026

Among the marchers were students and older folks, parents and children, carrying backpacks, bedrolls and lunch bags.

From "Because They Marched" by Russell Freedman

This generation, who as young adults hitchhiked across the country and backpacked through Europe, now is going on safaris and hiking in the Serengeti on guided tours that offer “easy” as well as “challenging” options.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026

As recounted by Hey and the Santa Barbara Independent, Montgomery had backpacked or cycled across South America, including Argentina and Chile, and across Asia, including India and the Himalayas.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2025

“I’m so happy to be back,” said Monica Macri, as she led her line of energetic, masked and backpacked fourth-graders toward their designated school entrance.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 1, 2021

Mann points to American Hiking Society numbers showing 34 million Americans hiked in 2013 and 9 million backpacked.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 8, 2020

Some ding-dongs believe me, though, and when that happens, I keep the lie going, spinning it until I run out of ideas: I backpacked through France, Germany, and Spain with my rich aunt from Barcelona.

From "I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter" by Erika L. Sánchez

Back in 2010, Francesco Patarnello, Matteo Danieli and Luca Ferrari went on a backpacking trip as friends and returned as co-founders.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 11, 2026

I saw these and many other otherworldly species while on a life-changing backpacking trip to the island five years ago, which I chronicled for this newspaper.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2026

Simone White, 28, from Orpington, south-east London, was one of a number of people taken to hospital when she had been staying in the popular backpacking town of Vang Vieng.

From BBC ● Mar. 5, 2026

At his condo last fall, Pretti was preparing for a biking and backpacking trip in Utah.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 1, 2026

It’s hard to do that when you’re backpacking in Nepal.

From "Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel" by Harlan Coben


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