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folder

[fohl-der] / ˈfoʊl dər /
NOUN
paper envelope for holding items
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Nearby, another family clutches a folder of old medical reports, hoping the hospital can still save their loved one.

From BBC Jun. 28, 2026

Clutching under his arm a blue folder stuffed with documents, maps, and cadastral surveys, Balliu said he has been threatened several times for trying to assert his rights.

From Barron's Jun. 25, 2026

A simple way to imagine this is like making two photocopies of a document but accidentally placing both copies into the same folder instead of separating them.

From Science Daily May 25, 2026

Regulars had their usual jotted down in shorthand and kept in a folder to be used as soon as they walked in.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 7, 2026

But at the same time Jonah looked at the folder, Mr. Reardon did too.

From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

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

The lawsuit claims that Liu did not return an Apple-issued work laptop and exploited a “rare, previously unknown” bug to access Apple’s shared network folders while employed at OpenAI.

From MarketWatch Jul. 10, 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

From the closet, which was half full of clothes, he pulled out a cigar box and several dark blue folders.

From "The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child" by Francisco Jiménez




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