file folder
Americannoun
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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
They later found that name in the file folder for Ms. Hover’s case.
From New York Times • Jul. 24, 2021
Then he pulled open the deep drawer on the bottom left, and took out a new file folder.
From "The Landry News" by Andrew Clements
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