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the practice of sharing computer data or space on a network

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Words nearby file sharing

file folder, file footage, filename, Filene, file server, file sharing, filet, filet lace, filet mignon, file transfer protocol, filial

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Example sentences from the Web for file sharing

A few years back, designer John Galliano was fined by the government for sharing just such anti-semitic sentiments in public.
Politicians Only Love Journalists When They're Dead|Luke O’Neil|January 8, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Did he go to the authorities to file a report against the Guerreros Unidos drug cartel?
Mexico’s Priests Are Marked for Murder|Jason McGahan|January 7, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Did the airline file a flight plan that took account of the weather en route from Surabaya, Indonesia, to Singapore?
Annoying Airport Delays Might Prevent You From Becoming the Next AirAsia 8501|Clive Irving|January 6, 2015|DAILY BEAST
The rapid rise of the sharing economy is changing the way people around the world commute, shop, vacation, and borrow.
Why Do ‘Progressives’ Want to Ban Uber and AirBnB?|Adam Thierer, Christopher Koopman|December 30, 2014|DAILY BEAST

With 3D printing you can continue to use the file and update.
3-D Printing Is Changing the Future of Prosthetics|Lucy Vernasco|December 10, 2014|DAILY BEAST
As each company front formed the knees of the rank and file seemed to give way.
Gallipoli Diary, Volume I|Ian Hamilton
If Wee Willie Winkie took an interest in anyone, the fortunate man was envied alike by the mess and the rank and file.
Kipling Stories and Poems Every Child Should Know, Book II|Rudyard Kipling
We recollect sharing in the despondency, and even despair, which paralysed our party.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXIX. January, 1844. Vol. LV.|Various
Not for twenty necklaces and a whole file of hieroglyphic passes would she doubt Frank any more.
The Red Year|Louis Tracy
The sides of the notch were steep, and the boys rode through it in single file, Matt taking the lead.
Motor Matt's "Century" Run|Stanley R. Matthews

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