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
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
The signed document said the file folder being handed over contained “all documents that are responsive to the subpoena.”
From Washington Post • Sep. 30, 2022
Connie was a little cheesed off that I’d lied to her about being into government, but then I handed her a file folder.
From "Liar, Liar" by Gary Paulsen
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