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Paying $45 for a first checked bag is the norm now after a round of price hikes earlier this year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2026
One day I woke up and my legs were the size of a watermelon, so I had to get all that checked.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 13, 2026
"I checked it with a spectrometer and found that even though the butterflies didn't look violet to me, it reflected UV light," she said.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 12, 2026
He said the property developer has ties to at least 100 other sites around the city, which are also now being checked.
From BBC ● Nov. 12, 2026
“All we have is a hunch, a hunch that would have taken entirely too long to explain. Besides, last I checked, nobody listened to criminals and their hunches.”
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
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