briefcase
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He said he always had an entrepreneurial flair, selling bubblegum and popcorn from his Samsonite briefcase at Jamaica High School.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 18, 2026
Despite several security violations over the years, including leaving a briefcase full of classified information on a subway, Ames was then sent to Mexico City in 1981.
From BBC ● Jan. 6, 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
“As soon as I saw the story, I tried to push it down into my briefcase and hide it,” he says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2025
He was about to say something when a man with a briefcase jumped into his rickshaw and ordered, “Get along.”
From "Homeless Bird" by Gloria Whelan
I fell in with a nerdy set—a small group of academically minded boys who carried their books in briefcases.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 19, 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
The veterinarian barked, and the dogs fell on a squadron of Business Hours, chewing through their briefcases and shiny leather shoes.
From "The Last Last-Day-of-Summer" by Lamar Giles
