briefcase
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Prior to the 2000s, when the Fed communicated much less about the potential path of rates, investors resorted to extreme measures such as assessing the size of Alan Greenspan’s briefcase when he entered meetings.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026
George aero-commutes in a glass-domed saucer that folds into a briefcase, and still manages to get stuck in traffic.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 30, 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
I hold my breath at the sight of Quinton’s proud face as he loads the briefcase that started all this.
From "Amari and the Night Brothers" by B.B. Alston
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
I think of how there is no million-dollar defense, no dream team with briefcases filled with credentials.
From "The Freedom Writers Diary" by The Freedom Writers
