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
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 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
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
Dr. Barnes closed up Mr. Larson’s fat file folder, put it back in the drawer, shut the cabinet, locked it, and dropped the key back into its place.
From "The Landry News" by Andrew Clements
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