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folder

[fohl-der] / ˈfoʊl dər /
NOUN
paper envelope for holding items
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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

Then I used vibe coding to write a script that takes all the PDFs in one folder and makes them into one big document.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 16, 2026

That’s how I took a folder full of past emails and extracted the email addresses of each person who emails me regularly.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 16, 2026

A good checklist is to go to last year’s tax folder and see what you ended up with in there, and try to match everything with new documents.

From MarketWatch • Jan. 29, 2026

She turns her folder around to show me.

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam