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Opt instead for a purse-like pack with a long enough strap that it can be hung diagonally across your body -- this makes purse-snatching more difficult for a thief.
Frommer's: How to Avoid Being Pickpocketed While Traveling Frommer's 2011
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Opt instead for a purse-like pack with a long enough strap that it can be hung diagonally across your body -- this makes purse-snatching more difficult for a thief.
Frommer's: How to Avoid Being Pickpocketed While Traveling Frommer's 2011
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Even though they are now permitted to carry formerly taboo messenger bags once too purse-like, freeing their briefcase hand for their cell, their outerwear is still stuck in 1980.
Martha Rosenberg: Before You Bash the Fashion Industry, Remember It Gave Us Leggings Martha Rosenberg 2011
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Even though they are now permitted to carry formerly taboo messenger bags once too purse-like, freeing their briefcase hand for their cell, their outerwear is still stuck in 1980.
Martha Rosenberg: Before You Bash the Fashion Industry, Remember It Gave Us Leggings Martha Rosenberg 2011
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They'll come in a kit with a matching clutch purse-like case - even the box will match the camcorder design.
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I enjoyed a butternut squash-filled agnolotti (little purse-like filled pasta) in a pecan brown butter sauce.
Archive 2007-07-01 Nupur 2007
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A smaller purse-like dumpling with eight folds toward the center was my mother's.
My Grandmother's Dumpling Amy Ma 2009
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If you told American men twenty-five years ago that one day they'd carry purse-like totes called messenger bags, they would have hit you.
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It is a deep, almost purse-like cup, very loosely and carelessly put together, of moderately fine grass, in amongst which a quantity of wool has been intermingled.
The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1 Allan Octavian Hume 1870
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Others are still more egg-shaped, with a similar aperture near the top, and others are more purse-like.
The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1 Allan Octavian Hume 1870
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