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text file

NOUN

basic document file

Synonyms

WEAK

ASCII file data file data set file text word processing file

Example Sentences

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Do you have a bunch of PDFs that would be more useful as text files, or a text file that would be more useful to you as a spreadsheet?

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 16, 2026

First, the Yale University physical chemist downloads the PDF and copies it into a separate text file.

From Science Magazine • Aug. 16, 2022

If you select “JSON,” you’ll get a text file that’s formatted like Javascript, making it easier to feed it into computer programs.

From The Verge • Feb. 16, 2022

The note can be as simple as an email to the company’s executives or a text file left unencrypted on one of the servers.

From Washington Post • Jul. 9, 2021

Since this was a text file, you could have changed the "binary" to "ascii" and then eliminated the "uuencode" file.

From Big Dummy's Guide to the Internet by Electronic Frontier Foundation