backpack
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I didn’t even have to put my backpack in the overhead bin and still had plenty of room to stretch out.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
It meant making your bed every morning and putting finished homework in your backpack every night.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
One man pushed past me with a backpack, shouting agitatedly about fried chicken.
From Slate ● Aug. 24, 2026
Whisper Aero aims to further develop its products, including a backpack leaf blower that would be better suited to professional landscapers.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
The cold stung my cheeks as I pulled The World Awakens from my backpack again.
From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows
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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
Thus, our heroes must peel themselves off from the couch and go on the run with their resentful felines Dio and GG bouncing along in backpacks.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
Thanks to these men, school kids today carry around more computing power in their backpacks than the Pentagon could have afforded in the 1950s.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 2, 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
"That's what you think," TJ went on as they swapped backpacks.
From "Look Both Ways" by Jason Reynolds
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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
Adamson, according to an ABC report, is a former teacher who backpacked across the country and wrote a book about the subject.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2023
“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
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The soldier's profile notes he loves "to travel, and do anything related to the outdoors; hiking, backpacking, camping, biking, boating".
From BBC ● Apr. 28, 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
Several are backpacking sites and do not offer potable water.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 29, 2025
Loktev hasn’t completed a film since 2011’s “The Loneliest Planet,” which starred Gael García Bernal and Hani Furstenberg as soon-to-be-wed lovers backpacking through the Georgian countryside, their seemingly close bond shattered after a harrowing encounter.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 25, 2025
“I was in Cusco, and I’d been backpacking for weeks.”
From "The Benefits of Being an Octopus" by Ann Braden
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