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Recent Examples of folder One scorching afternoon in Hargeisa last month, Edna Adan was busy sorting through piles of folders at her office. Abdi Latif Dahir, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2025 Inside the folder there is a block of four stamps, a stamped and cancelled philatelic postcard, a first-day envelope, and a philatelic card. Andrea Onate, Footwear News, 4 Apr. 2025 The Texas Nationalist Movement (TNM), which is campaigning for Texas to leave the United States, has claimed 80 percent of the groups email's that reference its name or Texan independence are being diverted into its subscriber's spam folders on Gmail. Lee Habeeb, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Apr. 2025 The stamp is included inside a collectible four-flap and a philatelic A4 folder. Andrea Onate, Footwear News, 4 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for folder
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Noun
  • Brooks recounts the song coming to life in the CD booklet for his compilation album The Hits.
    Marina Watts, People.com, 17 Apr. 2025
  • Osgood Perkins' adaptation of Stephen King's short story, which first was sold as a booklet included in Gallery Magazine in November 1980, tells the story of twin brothers Bill and Hal who find an old toy monkey in their late father's attic.
    Raja Krishnamoorthi, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Only after addressing each concern systematically—not with glossy brochures but with transparent communication and concrete commitments—did the community embrace what became a transformative project.
    Lynn Godfrey, Forbes.com, 4 Apr. 2025
  • Engaging visuals, like cartoon characters or friendly animal mascots, can make your website and brochures more appealing to children.
    Ajay Prasad, Forbes, 21 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Outside of the Orland Park Civic Center, a polling place on Tuesday, McLaughlin was handing out leaflets supporting Dodge and the Orland Park for All group as well as for his daughter, Bridget Lindbloom, running for a library board seat.
    Mike Nolan, Chicago Tribune, 2 Apr. 2025
  • Among other grievances, the document reported bans at UCSF and UC Davis against handing out leaflets within 50 feet of a university doorway.
    Jia H. Jung, The Mercury News, 28 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • The good news: Southwest still has one of the best perks in travel for frequent flyers with its Annual Companion pass that allows a second person to fly free and just pay the taxes.
    Ramsey Qubein, Forbes.com, 13 Apr. 2025
  • While that was a lighthearted viral moment in the travel world, this year, flyers are amping things up with a much riskier practice: airport theory.
    Natalia Senanayake, People.com, 8 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The pamphlet was distributed to millions of households in November, after being updated for the first time in six years due to increasing military threat levels.
    Sophie Tanno, CNN Money, 12 Apr. 2025
  • The pamphlet outlines what a heightened state of alert would mean, how each inhabitant would pitch in to a war-time effort, and what different sirens sound like.
    Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 25 Mar. 2025

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“Folder.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/folder. Accessed 27 Apr. 2025.

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