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file folder

American  

noun

  • file folders
    plural
  1. a thin cardboard folder of a size to be stored in the drawer of a file cabinet and for containing correspondence and other files.


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"I took the crumpled sheets, smoothed them out, read the crazy leaping lines, smiled to myself at the leaps that never landed and then put the sheets into a file folder," he added.

From BBC ● Jan. 19, 2025

Investigators, who handle about 200 cases yearly, are given a manila file folder containing a name, birthdate and little else for each death.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 4, 2024

I grabbed a file folder and in large black permanent marker wrote “Make the seat.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2022

In one overstuffed file folder I also happened upon some of the “favorite book” lists I used to collect.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 24, 2021

Lori scribbles something on the file folder in front of her.

From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline

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