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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

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

She gathers the file and zips it back into her folder.

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam

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

I felt most useful when he took one of his folders and laid it in front of me, showing me a series of photographs.

From "The Girl on the Train" by Paula Hawkins




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