briefcase
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Who cares what happens to the Danes’ precious briefcase?
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
A bigger briefcase was seen as a sign that Greenspan was marshaling evidence for raising rates.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026
He also did not mention that three men had visited their hotel room that night, one holding a briefcase, and spent an hour there before they helped the prophet load bags into his car.
From BBC ● May 22, 2026
He carried a script he was writing in a slim briefcase, which he’d shuttle back and forth from the brand-new Starbucks down the street.
From Salon ● Nov. 23, 2025
I'd meant to leave the briefcase at the front desk, but when they called Reverend Sloan's room, he asked for me to be sent on up.
From "How It Went Down" by Kekla Magoon
We would hop into flying “aero sedans” that folded into briefcases and take holidays on an asteroid.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 15, 2026
He opened briefcases and huge chests with bundles of cash.
From Barron's ● Nov. 13, 2025
By now employees with briefcases, obviously managers, had arrived for the day, and her excuses were wearing thin.
From Slate ● Jul. 22, 2025
The Cold War section includes one of the two briefcases left by Guy Burgess at his London club, when he fled to Moscow in 1951 with fellow spy Donald Maclean.
From BBC ● Apr. 1, 2025
At this time of day it was thronged with men pulling on their gowns for dinner, or hurrying to leave papers or briefcases in the common room before moving into the hall.
From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman
