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folder

[fohl-der] / ˈfoʊl dər /
NOUN
paper envelope for holding items
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Then he "realised I hadn't got the folder... it just felt for a moment like the world had stopped."

From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026

But Tatiana couldn’t resist one indulgence: In a folder, she placed a lock of baby hair that she kept from Alisa and Stupnikov’s infancy, as well as some old photos and his high school certificate.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

Each morning, I’d open my drafts folder to find responses waiting for my review.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026

Most prime ministers enter PMQs with a thick folder of notes covering what they hope is every conceivable question they might face.

From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026

He was pleased with himself because he had just finished writing a report and was binding it into a folder and adding tabs.

From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland

A July trip to Target to get everything on her list — among the items, two packs of wired headphones, Band-Aids, eight folders and four composition notebooks — cost about $230.

From Salon ● Aug. 18, 2026

The target folders ensured that agents apprehended the correct person.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 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

Later, in the days just before school starts, sales of pens, folders and notebooks spike, he said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 21, 2026

On the desk in the office, the paperwork I organized into folders is still stacked beside the computer, the book for signing out canoes still open to the last entry I recorded eleven days ago.

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam


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