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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Recent Examples of portmanteaus
Those are just a few of the clever software-as-a-service portmanteaus being tossed around as investors debate a massive selloff in the sector that has vaporized roughly $1 trillion in valuations from recent highs, with more than $285 billion in market value wiped out in February alone.
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Amanda Gerut, Fortune, 18 Feb. 2026
Fierce sunlight bleaching the stones of the old city, blinding the passengers as porters in white kaffiyehs and djellabas stack their portmanteaus on donkey carts.
—Literary Hub, 16 Feb. 2026
Amanda Gerut, Fortune, 18 Feb. 2026
Fierce sunlight bleaching the stones of the old city, blinding the passengers as porters in white kaffiyehs and djellabas stack their portmanteaus on donkey carts.
—Literary Hub, 16 Feb. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for portmanteaus
Noun
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Think sleek suitcases, smart under-seat backpacks, comfortable yet stylish travel pants, and the small accessories that make economy feel a little more manageable—all marked down for a limited time.—
Chaise Sanders,
Travel + Leisure,
22 Feb. 2026
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For more than a month, Michal Weits has kept suitcases packed by the front door of her house in Tel Aviv.—
Efrat Lachter,
FOXNews.com,
21 Feb. 2026
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Serving more than 94 million users, MercadoLibre drives the shift from offline to digital commerce and finance, with its fintech segment now accounting for a growing share of revenue through payments processing, credit offerings and digital wallets.—
Michael Khouw,
CNBC,
23 Feb. 2026
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Inside, Darwin Tirado-Sanchez, 22, sitting in the passenger seat and a 38-year-old man in the driver’s seat, were ordered at gunpoint to turn over their wallets and keys without turning around toward their robbers, prosecutors said in a court proffer of allegations.—
William Lee,
Chicago Tribune,
22 Feb. 2026
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“Portmanteaus.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/portmanteaus. Accessed 25 Feb. 2026.
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