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folder

[fohl-der] / ˈfoʊl dər /
NOUN
paper envelope for holding items
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He put the top secret papers in a bright orange cardboard folder and sat on the train the next morning thinking over and over "do not forget this".

From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026

Jackson went to every station the train stopped at and asked whether someone had handed a folder in.

From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026

But Tatiana couldn’t resist one indulgence: In a folder, she placed a lock of baby hair that she kept from Alisa and Stupnikov’s infancy, as well as some old photos and his high school certificate.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

All of a sudden, the player who couldn’t keep his emails out of the junk folder has become the quarterback NFL teams are lining up to draft, as a projected first-round pick in April.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

“Let’s take a walk to the cafeteria,” he said, picking up a folder.

From "Breaking Through" by Francisco Jiménez

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

That logo was on internal folders and materials and in internal presentations.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 20, 2026

She patted the stack of folders she’d set on the table.

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu


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