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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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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

Two years later, a reporter at the Times Higher Education—a respected specialized media that focuses on the university sector—investigated Arday and put together a 97-page dossier of evidence of his plagiarism.

From The Wall Street Journal ● 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

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

“How does a lowly indent get access to secret Sixer dossier files and company memos?”

From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline

Anthropic said the operation ran roughly 300 fake social media accounts, though it could not determine whether the testimonies or dossiers reached their intended audiences or influenced policy decisions.

From Barron's ● Sep. 11, 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

A pair of semi-coded dossiers accompanied the photographs.

From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote


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