filings

noun

plural of filing
as in documents

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Recent Examples of filings Quarterly filings are often where deterioration, aggressive accounting, and outright fraud are first detected; the watchdogs work the filing calendar. — Shivaram Rajgopal, Forbes.com, 1 June 2026 The claims potentially push the matter closer to court, as such filings can be a precursor to filing a lawsuit. — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for filings
  1. documents
  2. papers
  3. forms
Noun
  • The documents show details for only one part of Phoenix’s portfolio, and do not include assets in retirement accounts or stakes held in companies through mutual funds, corporate bonds and other securities, the accountants confirmed.
    — Allegra Goodwin, CNN Money, 1 Oct. 2026
  • Consider a bank using AI to read documents for small-business loans.
    — David Pralong, Fortune, 1 Oct. 2026
Definition of documents
Noun
  • In 2014, three years after his death, it was found among the papers of his close friend Zdeněk Urbánek.
    — Václav Havel, The New York Review of Books, 3 Oct. 2026
  • In January, its investigators reported finding more than 100 hallucinated citations in papers accepted at NeurIPS, one of the world’s top AI research conferences, as Fortune first reported.
    — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2026
Definition of papers
Noun
  • Scientists can now examine sections of DNA that were once inaccessible and detect forms of genetic variation that older methods may have missed.
    — Euan Ashley, STAT, 1 Oct. 2026
  • This time around, though, the 45 mm case is pink gold and the dial is deep green like the mythical forest where Merlin is said to have assumed multiple forms.
    — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 30 Sep. 2026
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