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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

Speaking of obsession, Keen Umbehr sold off family property so he could close his law practice to work on the case; the couple created a 200-page dossier against one person they suspected.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

Bulgaria’s secret services kept a dossier on him during his years abroad, routinely monitoring the correspondence of prominent exiles and dissidents.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 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

He pointed the flashlight at each of us and spoke as if quoting some secret dossier.

From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs

Anthropic says the actors used Claude to ingest information in multiple languages, monitor social media, map organizations and individuals, and produce state-security-style intelligence dossiers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

The testimony of Eusebio Ortiz, who was involved in a shooting in Ontario in October, and Carey Crook, revealed that ICE had replaced detailed operational dossiers with “baseball cards.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 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

New consultant contracts call for analysts to monitor people on social media, identify threats and create dossiers about people who make them.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 1, 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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