as in brochures
a short printed publication with no cover or with a paper cover
a folder offering tips for heating one's home efficiently
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Recent Examples of folders
Make sure to check your spam and junk folders for that email.
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Meredith G. White, AZCentral.com, 13 Sep. 2025
Creative writing folders and books under my arm.
—Manuel Muñoz, Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2025
The Google Drive folders included hundreds of image files of older court filings tied to Epstein but offered virtually no new information.
—Gabe Whisnant, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Sep. 2025
Documents can be organized into folders or by using tags.
—New Atlas, 8 Sep. 2025
Authorities also found two folders containing drawings, engravings and prints containing German text, which are believed to date to the 1940s.
—Michelle Del Rey, USA Today, 3 Sep. 2025
Workspaces house Spaces that contain your actual tasks, alongside dashboards, documents, folders, forms, lists, and whiteboards.
—PC Magazine, 2 Sep. 2025
The league was in its infancy, but drew dozens of kids from my block, all of us carrying tattered binders and folders full of the first generation of Pokémon cards.
—Jamal Michel, NPR, 31 Aug. 2025
Consider the money The claim of bias from Google’s email servers is the second time such an issue has been raised, with the first being in 2022 when the Republican National Committee accused Alphabet, Google’s parent company, of intentionally sending the party's emails to users' spam folders.
—Angele Latham, The Tennessean, 30 Aug. 2025
Meredith G. White, AZCentral.com, 13 Sep. 2025
Creative writing folders and books under my arm.
—Manuel Muñoz, Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2025
The Google Drive folders included hundreds of image files of older court filings tied to Epstein but offered virtually no new information.
—Gabe Whisnant, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Sep. 2025
Documents can be organized into folders or by using tags.
—New Atlas, 8 Sep. 2025
Authorities also found two folders containing drawings, engravings and prints containing German text, which are believed to date to the 1940s.
—Michelle Del Rey, USA Today, 3 Sep. 2025
Workspaces house Spaces that contain your actual tasks, alongside dashboards, documents, folders, forms, lists, and whiteboards.
—PC Magazine, 2 Sep. 2025
The league was in its infancy, but drew dozens of kids from my block, all of us carrying tattered binders and folders full of the first generation of Pokémon cards.
—Jamal Michel, NPR, 31 Aug. 2025
Consider the money The claim of bias from Google’s email servers is the second time such an issue has been raised, with the first being in 2022 when the Republican National Committee accused Alphabet, Google’s parent company, of intentionally sending the party's emails to users' spam folders.
—Angele Latham, The Tennessean, 30 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for folders
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In a waiting room steps away from the hospital’s intensive care unit, a woman carrying brochures explained to Payne and the rest of the family that Black had identified himself as a possible organ donor on his ID.—
Kff Health News,
Oc Register,
12 Sep. 2025
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In response, Thomson and Airtours rushed out their 1995 brochures — which was, of course, how people researched holidays back then — before some customers had even taken that year’s break.—
Ian King,
CNBC,
10 Sep. 2025
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Also, Zojirushi appliances of all types (rice cookers included) come with dense, sometimes hard-to-follow instruction booklets.—
Noah Kaufman,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
4 Sep. 2025
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Travel log booklets can be downloaded online or picked up at the county’s visitors centers when open.—
Michelle Mullins,
Chicago Tribune,
2 Sep. 2025
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The method also enables the placement of dense computational points in critical areas, such as the tire-road contact or the closure of heart valve leaflets.—
Atharva Gosavi,
Interesting Engineering,
8 Sep. 2025
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Photos and videos on social media show leaflets dropped on Gaza City and central Gaza carrying the same message.—
Ibrahim Dahman,
CNN Money,
6 Sep. 2025
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For frequent flyers, Delta's scores represent a seismic shift.—
Christopher Elliott,
Forbes.com,
14 Sep. 2025
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These picks are designed to make getting around smoother, way more efficient, and to help frequent fliers avoid travel chaos (think tangled necklaces, dead phone batteries, and neck strains).—
Chaise Sanders,
Travel + Leisure,
12 Sep. 2025
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Brochures, pamphlets, posters, archival materials, and other goods relating to the institution’s history have all been gathered and put on display.—
Douglas Markowitz,
Miami Herald,
26 Aug. 2025
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Rural librarians can direct survivors to legal assistance and domestic violence service websites, help find books and pamphlets that are useful for survivors, and provide programming for survivors’ children if survivors need time to think about their options.—
Walter S. DeKeseredy,
The Conversation,
25 Aug. 2025
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“Folders.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/folders. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.
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