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file folder

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noun

  1. a thin cardboard folder of a size to be stored in the drawer of a file cabinet and for containing correspondence and other files.


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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

According to the officials, a person handing the playing of the national anthems accidentally chose the protesters’ song saved in a computer file folder named “Hong Kong.”

From Seattle Times • Nov. 13, 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

I grabbed a file folder and in large black permanent marker wrote “Make the seat.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 14, 2022

I produced these from the black file folder in which I’d been carrying them.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood

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