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
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
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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