file folder
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file folders
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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 started a Google Doc tracking every letter, email and phone call; a physical file folder, soon bulging, kept everything in one place.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 2022
Ms. Blackburn was barred from the university’s supercomputing cluster — with her file folder labeled “Bitcoin,” she was suspected of mining the cryptocurrency.
From New York Times ● Jun. 6, 2022
He folded the newspaper sheet exactly in half, put it into the file folder, and tucked it into the drawer.
From "The Landry News" by Andrew Clements
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