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folder

[fohl-der] / ˈfoʊl dər /
NOUN
paper envelope for holding items
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Prosecutors alleged that when they went through Light's deleted folder on her phone, they found photos of jurors exiting the courthouse, and Light was then taken into custody.

From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026

And just the other day she found a folder on her computer full of songs she wrote years ago with her friend Marvin Etzioni of Lone Justice.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026

After recording the calls, Regan uploaded the files to a Google Drive folder that he shared as training materials with the insurance agents who sold Next Level and Yield.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026

Clutching under his arm a blue folder stuffed with documents, maps, and cadastral surveys, Balliu said he has been threatened several times for trying to assert his rights.

From Barron's ● Jun. 25, 2026

I always wanted to look in the red folder to see, but felt like that’s an invasion of privacy or something.

From "Free Lunch" by Rex Ogle

A July trip to Target to get everything on her list — among the items, two packs of wired headphones, Band-Aids, eight folders and four composition notebooks — cost about $230.

From Salon ● Aug. 18, 2026

The target folders ensured that agents apprehended the correct person.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026

The lawsuit claims that Liu did not return an Apple-issued work laptop and exploited a “rare, previously unknown” bug to access Apple’s shared network folders while employed at OpenAI.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 10, 2026

They all had access to the master “Toy Story 2” drive and it was easy to move between their personal folders and that central server—too easy, as it turned out.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 20, 2026

Dad and Leo are pawing through a mound of paper on the breakfast table, the contents of three or four fat folders from the cabinet above the wall oven.

From "Things Not Seen" by Andrew Clements


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