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as in to rub
to make smooth by friction beautifully filed nails that obviously had been done by a manicurist

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file

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verb (2)

as in to march
to move along with a steady regular step especially in a group to the strains of that familiar music, this year's graduating class filed into the auditorium

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file

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noun

as in queue
a series of persons or things arranged one behind another a long file of people waiting to get tickets to the game

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No terms were disclosed in the settlement filed Thursday in Los Angeles County Superior Court, according to the Los Angeles Times. Lynette Rice, Deadline, 13 Oct. 2025 The largest possible payment—$5,108 per month—is only available to those who wait until age 70 to file. Aliss Higham, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Oct. 2025
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Disable unnecessary permissions like location tracking, microphone use or full file access. Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 17 Oct. 2025 The allegations, with their confluence of money, exploitation, and vaunted institutions, are youth basketball’s version of the Jeffrey Epstein files. Luke Cyphers, Sportico.com, 17 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for file
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  • In the eastbound direction, between the queue of cars and congregation of responders, lay a motionless helicopter, not in the sky, but on the ground; not right-side-up but on its roof.
    Jake Goodrick, Sacbee.com, 11 Oct. 2025
  • Holloway Road tube relies on a couple of old elevators to get up and down from the platform and the entrance is on a major road, so there is no obvious place for passengers to queue outside.
    Amy Lawrence, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2025
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  • The percentage indicates how much of the fire perimeter has been surrounded by a control line.
    CA WILDFIRE BOT, Sacbee.com, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Even in a game when rookie left tackle Josh Simmons was a late scratch because of an unspecified personal matter, the offensive line with Jaylon Moore filling in for Simmons was virtually seamless.
    Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 13 Oct. 2025
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  • Video from the area around the Ufa refinery in Bashkortostan, a Russian region in the southern Ural Mountains, showed a column of dark smoke rising from the plant following the attack.
    Tim Lister, CNN Money, 12 Oct. 2025
  • One image showed a massive column of people moving north along the territory’s coastline, by vehicle and on foot.
    Greg Norman , James Levinson, FOXNews.com, 11 Oct. 2025
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  • Most importantly, many defensive special-teams rushers are first-string players, whereas the blockers tend to be second- and third-string players.
    J.J. Bailey, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2025
  • At 25, the Bronx native has already collected five Grammy Awards and a string of historic performances, from Sesame Street to Austin City Limits.
    Shelby Stewart, Essence, 12 Oct. 2025
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  • Tuttle grows more than 30 varieties of apples in orchards split up across the 200-acre farm, about a quarter of the acreage is devoted to long rows of apple trees.
    Karl Schneider, IndyStar, 14 Oct. 2025
  • The results weren't perfect — for the third quarter in a row, Wells Fargo missed the consensus estimate for NII, a crucial revenue source for traditional banks.
    Jeff Marks, CNBC, 14 Oct. 2025

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“File.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/file. Accessed 20 Oct. 2025.

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