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He opens a folder and takes out a stack of large photographs: portraits of prisoners.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026
So she set up a “deals” folder and routed all the promotions out of her inbox.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 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
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
He took out his mini Minox camera, opened a folder with technical specs of Soviet missiles, and began snapping pictures.
From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin
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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
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
In the digital world, I have difficulties too: filling out online forms or setting up an email address can see my name rejected and the emails I send often go into spam folders.
From BBC ● Apr. 18, 2026
I see now that she provoked me in a good way, introducing me to the idea that not everyone needs to have their file folders labeled and alphabetized, or even to have files at all.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
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