filing cabinet
noun
: a piece of furniture that is used for storing documents so that they can be found easily
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An intricate reporting system was put in place: everyone in the cult was ordered to log bad behavior, and Alamo kept extensive notes in a filing cabinet.
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Rob Picheta, CNN Money, 28 May 2026
Mistaking the Frances & Son Sienna filing cabinet for a nightstand instead of office furniture is easy.
—Yelena Moroz Alpert, Architectural Digest, 18 May 2026
Blockchain is like a massive, shared, digital filing cabinet that no one person can control.
—Diana Olick, CNBC, 7 May 2026
Clean data, in the absence of signal, is just an expensive filing cabinet.
—John Sviokla, Forbes.com, 22 Apr. 2026
The footage shows individuals carrying cardboard boxes and wheeling a filing cabinet out of the building.
—Jason Henry, Daily News, 9 Apr. 2026
For patients living with rare and neglected diseases, the next breakthrough treatment might already be sitting in a pharmaceutical company’s filing cabinet.
—Annette Bakker, Fortune, 19 Mar. 2026
Perimenopause has seeped into my mind like a trickster and rearranged the furniture, switched the labels on the drawers, locked me out of my own filing cabinet.
—Mira Ptacin
february 4, Literary Hub, 4 Feb. 2026
Many transportation companies were registered to the same address in Colorado Springs, The Post found, and drivers using it were charged $150 for a desk and a lockable filing cabinet — one of HCPF’s requirements at the time.
—Seth Klamann, Denver Post, 21 Jan. 2026
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Rob Picheta, CNN Money, 28 May 2026
Mistaking the Frances & Son Sienna filing cabinet for a nightstand instead of office furniture is easy.
—Yelena Moroz Alpert, Architectural Digest, 18 May 2026
Blockchain is like a massive, shared, digital filing cabinet that no one person can control.
—Diana Olick, CNBC, 7 May 2026
Clean data, in the absence of signal, is just an expensive filing cabinet.
—John Sviokla, Forbes.com, 22 Apr. 2026
The footage shows individuals carrying cardboard boxes and wheeling a filing cabinet out of the building.
—Jason Henry, Daily News, 9 Apr. 2026
For patients living with rare and neglected diseases, the next breakthrough treatment might already be sitting in a pharmaceutical company’s filing cabinet.
—Annette Bakker, Fortune, 19 Mar. 2026
Perimenopause has seeped into my mind like a trickster and rearranged the furniture, switched the labels on the drawers, locked me out of my own filing cabinet.
—Mira Ptacin
february 4, Literary Hub, 4 Feb. 2026
Many transportation companies were registered to the same address in Colorado Springs, The Post found, and drivers using it were charged $150 for a desk and a lockable filing cabinet — one of HCPF’s requirements at the time.
—Seth Klamann, Denver Post, 21 Jan. 2026
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