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as in briefcase
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Noun
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After he was ejected, the coach then inexplicably gathered a personal item — a leather briefcase more suited for the office than a ballpark — and began to walk slowly off the field.—
Anna Lazarus Caplan,
PEOPLE,
4 May 2026 -
Meet, also, a discreet, briefcase-toting ball-bearings salesman from Chicago, recently moved here with his wife, now that the kids are grown.—
Olivia Kan-Sperling,
Artforum,
2 May 2026
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Weston Hurt might have given the American consul Sharpless a bit more vocal oomph, but his well-upholstered baritone and awkward dignity were just right.—
Scott Cantrell,
Dallas Morning News,
11 Apr. 2026
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Robert Imbrie, the American consul in Tehran, was brutally murdered in 1924, allegedly because a fanatical religious leader accused him of being a Baha’i and poisoning a well.—
Daniel Thomas Potts,
The Conversation,
30 Mar. 2026
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Targeting Castro may leave Cuban officials little room to maneuver, cautioned former diplomat Zúñiga.—
Patrick Oppmann,
CNN Money,
20 May 2026
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Such tools can remotely hack into phones and have been abused repeatedly by governments around the world that have used them not only to counter national security threats, but also to spy on political rivals, diplomats, human rights activists and journalists.—
Jude Joffe-Block,
NPR,
19 May 2026
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But in Vienna, Pollak kept a mistress, and Milena had to take a job porting valises at the train station just to make ends meet.—
Christine Estima
September 12,
Literary Hub,
12 Sep. 2025
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That a kindly bellhop from The Balmoral, our hotel adjacent to the station, loaded our valises off a trolley cart did little to rein in these trappings.—
Ross Kenneth Urken,
Condé Nast Traveler,
27 May 2024
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Footage showing kneeling detainees sparks outrage from Israel’s foreign minister, rights advocates and governments in Italy, Turkey and Greece, who accuse Israel of abuse, humiliation and damaging its international standing.—
Natalie Melzer,
Los Angeles Times,
20 May 2026
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South Korea’s foreign minister said on Wednesday a Korean tanker was crossing the strait in cooperation with Iran.—
Reuters,
NBC news,
20 May 2026
Noun
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Developers connect either a Coinbase CDP wallet or a Stripe Privy wallet, fund it through stablecoins or a debit card, and set a per-session spending cap.—
Janakiram MSV,
Forbes.com,
17 May 2026
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Just don’t put your wallet in your back pocket and don’t wear a backpack on your back while on the train or metro or in crowds.—
Kristy Alpert,
Travel + Leisure,
16 May 2026
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Andrei Vyshinsky, procurator general in the 1930s, had overseen Stalin’s horrendous purges of millions of ordinary citizens – plus most of the members of the Communist Party Central Committee and top Soviet generals.—
Peter Bridges,
The Christian Science Monitor,
10 Jan. 2022
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The procurator of Roman Britain, Catus Decianus, ordered an extra two hundred men to Camulodunum and figured the problem was solved.—
Anne Thériault,
Longreads,
14 May 2021
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His party’s full name is the Respect and Freedom Party, but it’s known by a portmanteau of the first syllables of those Hungarian words.—
Isaac Stanley-Becker,
The Atlantic,
10 Apr. 2026
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But the pop savant soon realized the goofy portmanteau spoke quite seriously to her current state of mind.—
Hattie Lindert,
Pitchfork,
27 Mar. 2026
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“Attaché.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/attach%C3%A9. Accessed 23 May. 2026.
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