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folder

[fohl-der] / ˈfoʊl dər /
NOUN
paper envelope for holding items
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He opens a folder and takes out a stack of large photographs: portraits of prisoners.

From BBC Aug. 13, 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

A simple way to imagine this is like making two photocopies of a document but accidentally placing both copies into the same folder instead of separating them.

From Science Daily May 25, 2026

“He brings with him, like, a two-inch folder stuffed with handwritten stock reports he had written on minor league bus trips,” Houston said.

From Los Angeles Times May 17, 2026

The man sets down my papers and opens a yellow folder.

From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron

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

Craig Bellamy takes a seat at his desk and connects his laptop to a projector showing its contents on the opposite wall, the desktop background barely visible behind a maze of files and folders.

From BBC Mar. 23, 2026

At one end, heaped high against the sloping ceiling, were the folders and exercise books from the last months of his preparations for finals.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan




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