backpack
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Wyatt’s younger brother, Dylan, often wears his brother’s clothes and old backpack.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026
Lillia, from Bolton, Greater Manchester, was last seen on Saturday at the Trafford Centre shopping mall wearing a small black backpack.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
He secretly took the American's backpack, containing his MacBook, a satellite transmitter and other personal items, for regime operatives to look through, multiple sources say.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
It meant making your bed every morning and putting finished homework in your backpack every night.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
How had it gotten in his backpack from the glass casing?
From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova
The company changed ownership over the years, added backpacks and other products, and went public in 2017.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 2026
A few weeks ago, I met an acquaintance for coffee at a Cuban café attached to a downtown hostel, where people with backpacks of varying dimensions passed steadily through the lobby.
From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026
It’s church bells; bunk beds in 15-euro hostels; and some grand cities but also lots of tiny towns that exist because people with backpacks keep arriving.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 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
Realizing the gravity of the situation, they started rummaging around in their pockets and backpacks for anything they could contribute to the cause.
From "The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street" by Karina Yan Glaser
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
Poet Allen Ginsberg backpacked around the Northwest in 1956 with Zen poet Gary Snyder.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 1, 2021
Or that I haven’t backpacked in 13 years.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 8, 2021
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
A man from Edinburgh says he is facing jail in Thailand because he picked up a woman's phone in a bar "by mistake" on the first day of a backpacking holiday.
From BBC ● Apr. 24, 2026
These campgrounds are considered “moderate” because they either do not offer water but still offer car camping or they require a short backpacking trip.
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
“Yes, when the weather is good they go backpacking all the time — even the doctor. They’re all real outdoorsy,” she told me quietly, examining her shoes, too.
From "Twilight" by Stephenie Meyer
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