file folder
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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
The two attorneys met investigators there in June, giving them a taped-up file folder containing 38 documents collected in response to the subpoena.
From Washington Post • Sep. 30, 2022
I grabbed a file folder and in large black permanent marker wrote “Make the seat.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 14, 2022
Lori scribbles something on the file folder in front of her.
From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline
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