variants
or portmanteaux
as in suitcases
a bag carried by hand and designed to hold a traveler's clothing and personal articles
carried her possessions with her in an old portmanteau
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Noun
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The remains went undiscovered for four years — until 2022, when a local family purchased the unit’s contents at auction and opened the suitcases, PEOPLE previously reported.—
Christina Coulter,
PEOPLE,
9 Sep. 2025 -
Kiss messy suitcases goodbye with these genius travel organizers.—
Amelia McBride,
Travel + Leisure,
8 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Since then, Klarna has expanded to hundreds of thousands of merchants and embedded itself in internet browsers and digital wallets as an alternative to credit cards.—
Preston Fore,
Fortune,
11 Sep. 2025
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Mobile wallets simplify payments for users.—
Andrew Riabchuk,
Forbes.com,
11 Sep. 2025
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“Portmanteaus.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/portmanteaus. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.
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