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folder

[fohl-der] / ˈfoʊl dər /
NOUN
paper envelope for holding items
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So she set up a “deals” folder and routed all the promotions out of her inbox.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 7, 2026

Nearby, another family clutches a folder of old medical reports, hoping the hospital can still save their loved one.

From BBC Jun. 28, 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

He flips through another folder labeled “Domesticated Animals.”

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam

As evidence, Karen pulls out a decades-old photo of my newsroom cubicle with its remarkable mounds of documents, folders, newspapers and books on every horizontal surface.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 8, 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

Other items found in the SNP headquarters included a £195 memo holder from Smythson, a tea set costing £2,396, and a selection of writing folders.

From BBC Jun. 23, 2026

People he didn’t know having folders with his name on them, reading things about him that were none of their business, thinking they were better than him.

From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman




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