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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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He said he was "compiling a dossier" with his editor to prove that he authentically wrote the book.

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 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

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

A young black man, eyeless behind space-age sunglasses, studied the little dossier on the thigh next to his.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole

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

Anthropic said the operation compiled what it described as "counter-accountability dossiers" on UN special rapporteurs who had criticised the UAE's conduct in Sudan.

From Barron's ● Sep. 11, 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

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

A pair of semi-coded dossiers accompanied the photographs.

From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote




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