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How to use the word baggage in a Sentence?

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Baggage fees are bad enough – they can’t just treat your child like a piece of luggage.

President Biden

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The biggest problem has been the recovery – last summer, airports just couldn’t cope with the bounceback in passenger numbers, airlines and airports were unwilling or unable to resource back-up in late 2021 and early 2022 after cutting their costs, and that’s what caused the summer of chaos. There weren’t enough baggage handlers. Weren’t enough security screeners. In some cases there weren’t enough pilots.

Murdo Morrison

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We're all puppets, and our best hope for even partial liberation is to try to decipher the logic of the puppeteer. Just because natural selection created us doesn't mean we have to slavishly follow its peculiar agenda. (If anything, we might be tempted to spite it for all the ridiculous baggage it's saddled us with.)

Robert Wright

added by JokerGem
1 year ago

Having the gavels enhances members’ ability to deliver for their districts, build their brands, and follow through on the promises they made to hold the Biden administration accountable, meanwhile, Democrats are still stuck with Joe Biden and all his baggage.

Jack Pandol

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There is need for public understanding of the cost of this kind of wrongdoing and certainly for specific deterrence as well. And there is impact on our overall governmental system, not just physical threat to our sitting governor, it’s the emotional baggage that now our governor will have to carry and that she’s written about in her report.

Judge Robert Jonker

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The Republicans have a ton of baggage when it comes to their worship of Vladimir Putin.

Jay Chen

Found on CNN
2 years ago

When you are in crisis, there is often a lot of awkwardness to figuring out what people can do, it's a lot easier to ask for something on behalf of someone else than to ask for it yourself. Knowing that you can get little bits of support( from many different people) instead of being so dependent on a few individuals gives reassurance without the baggage of feeling dependent or guilty.

Vanessa Bohns

Found on CNN
2 years ago

SoulBlazing is a practice for blazing through your emotional baggage so that you can live a more purposeful life that’s aligned with your Authentic Self.

Lisa Haisha

added by lisa.haisha
2 years ago

He was always optimistic he could change the minds of his [bench] colleagues, so they will see the law as he sees it, so it allowed him to come to work every day and not be burdened by the baggage of the past cases, and the tensions that may have occurred between the justices. Because every case for him was a fresh start.

Mirah Horowitz

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The SEC has failed the American people by repeatedly selecting Wall Street defense lawyers as Directors of Enforcement, they come to the SEC with needless and unhelpful baggage, including crippling conflicts of interest regarding current and past clients as well as a mindset...ill-suited to being an aggressive enforcer.

Dennis Kelleher

Found on Reuters
2 years ago

Republicans have a great chance to win statewide this year, what we don't know now is what Donald Trump has done to the environment. Has Donald Trump permanently hurt the brand here or can Republicans get a fair shot to introduce themselves to voters again without Donald Trump baggage hanging around ?

Tucker Martin

Found on CNN
3 years ago

We all bring our baggage to life and sometimes we do things we shouldn't do, it was awful what I did.

Hillary Clinton

Found on CNN
4 years ago

A passenger biting other passengers and attacking the cabin crew trying to calm him down, resulting in the deviation of a Lisbon-Fortaleza flight to the nearest airport in order to disembark this passenger and his baggage, leading to a flight delay, falls under the concept of extraordinary circumstances.

Advocate General Priit Pikamae

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The whole goal was not only making the pads, but also attacking the cultural baggage to it.

Freweini Mebrahtu

Found on CNN
4 years ago

You hear of the plague, and instantly you think of Black Death which ravages Europe, it has that enormous historical baggage, it's where lots of our ideas about what it means to have an epidemic comes from.

Jack Greatrex

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Winning football games is all about the team and all about players caring about one another and everybody pulling together, not pulling apart, you cant have Antonio Brown for all the greatness that they are, do you want the baggage that goes with that crap? I wouldnt.

Terry Bradshaw

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

It has too much baggage; that name, it has too much bad history.

Rico Merkert

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

This is something entirely fresh for Taiwan politics – here is a candidate who sees everything through the pragmatic angle of a businessman rather than raw politics or ideology, he has no baggage and that will be a fascinating scenario.

Zhang Baohui

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

I had all these preconceived ideas about Mary Magdalene and about religion in general, a lot of baggage that made me hesitate, it wasn't until speaking to Garth Davis and looking at the story as an adult, without that baggage from Catholic school, that I could strip it back and see it with fresh eyes.

Rooney Mara

Found on CNN
5 years ago

We refused to sign such a document containing statements that are treating our loved ones like lost baggage, its ridiculous and hurts us.

Merdian Agustin

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

Roby has suffered a lot of backlash from Trump loyalists, but Bright is not the natural candidate to take advantage of that, he has a lot of baggage as a former Democrat.

David Hughes

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

To create three states from a standing start, you'll get all the benefits of knowing all the things that worked in the past, and all the things that could work in the future and you get to eliminate all the baggage you got in the state, when Tim Draper get together and Tim Draper start something fresh, Tim Draper have a new way to look at it and create better things.

Tim Draper

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Finally, after two hours, they let us know that, ‘OK, you have to leave all your personal items on the airplane and a bus is going to pick us up to take us to the baggage check area,'.

Marco Lavecchia

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

Everybody has baggage, unless you're in utero, you have baggage.

Joy Behar

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

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