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folder

[fohl-der] / ˈfoʊl dər /
NOUN
paper envelope for holding items
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After recording the calls, Regan uploaded the files to a Google Drive folder that he shared as training materials with the insurance agents who sold Next Level and Yield.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026

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

The man sets down my papers and opens a yellow folder.

From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron

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

As evidence, Karen pulls out a decades-old photo of my newsroom cubicle with its remarkable mounds of documents, folders, newspapers and books on every horizontal surface.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 8, 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

Then he set about going through the lockers in the saloon, looking through folders and papers in plastic boxes, trying to find the ship’s log.

From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy




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