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dossier

[dos-ee-ay, -ee-er, daw-see-ay, -see-er, daw-syay] / ˈdɒs iˌeɪ, -i ər, ˈdɔ siˌeɪ, -si ər, dɔˈsjeɪ /


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Her later chapters can read like a dossier proving a point already made.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026

One scene simply makes a naval officer recite Cole’s dossier on a different boat.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026

But details only came out two years later when the country's former spy chief, Arthur Fraser, highlighted the alleged theft in an explosive dossier that he sent to the police.

From BBC ● Jun. 5, 2026

Then, that data slab feeds off other sources to grow into a full-on digital dossier of your consumer attributes, bandied from advertiser to vendor to advertiser.

From Slate ● May 3, 2026

A young black man, eyeless behind space-age sunglasses, studied the little dossier on the thigh next to his.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole

Contractors prepare daily reports and dossiers on threat actors, identifying the poster’s name, location, date of birth, workplace, Social Security number, vehicle registration and criminal history when possible.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026

According to the court documents, ICE previously relied on the dossiers — known as “target folders” — to carry out targeted arrests.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026

And recently, rapidly advancing artificial-intelligence technologies that can analyze the massive digital dossiers about us and infer nearly everything about us.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 23, 2026

Working out of a secure base in Canary Wharf, this little-known fraud squad pulls together dossiers of evidence which are then sent to police forces, who help track down suspects.

From BBC ● May 19, 2026

We weren't allowed to discuss our instructions in the weeks leading up to the carnaval, but Amber and I had swapped our dossiers.

From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton




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