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folder

[fohl-der] / ˈfoʊl dər /
NOUN
paper envelope for holding items
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Each morning, I’d open my drafts folder to find responses waiting for my review.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026

Most prime ministers enter PMQs with a thick folder of notes covering what they hope is every conceivable question they might face.

From BBC ● Aug. 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

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

Coal pointed to the header on the folder that read Keegan, Win.

From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste

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

Ho said she was drawn to plans for a platform connecting directly to a client’s data sources, such as accounting systems and document folders, to automatically extract and match information.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 28, 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

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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