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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

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

Attached to the folder was a note from his father with his cell number in case they needed to get in touch with him.

From "Storm Runners" by Roland Smith

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

Later, in the days just before school starts, sales of pens, folders and notebooks spike, he said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 21, 2026

File folders are scattered across his desk, the floor covered in loose papers.

From "Amari and the Night Brothers" by B.B. Alston


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