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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

The dossier was later published without permission by the website Buzzfeed in 2017.

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026

Forrest said Bisignano never maintained a dossier on employees and said it was false that he asked for negative survey responses to be traced back to their authors.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026

‘We just looked at your dossier with extra care, and, frankly, we liked what we saw. There was never any question of our having to alter our standards. You can be certain of that.’

From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez

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

The statement appears to allude to a number of high-profile dossiers handled by Khan.

From Barron's ● Jul. 24, 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

A pair of semi-coded dossiers accompanied the photographs.

From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote


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