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folder

noun

ˈfōl-dər How to pronounce folder (audio)
Definition of foldernext
as in booklet
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 folder That loop, notes in, structured memory out, is a digital brain with a vendor database instead of a folder of Markdown. — Josipa Majic Predin, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2026 Review the numbers, create the folder, ask the direct question, or write down the plan. — Tarot.com, Baltimore Sun, 22 Aug. 2026 But sharp increases in the cost of folders, pencils and other products have forced her to cut back and search for cheaper alternatives. — Christopher Cann, USA Today, 22 Aug. 2026 Some Adams is willing to keep in the folder for even longer, waiting for any tiny moment when football’s typical logic may not apply. — Jourdan Rodrigue, New York Times, 20 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for folder
Recent Examples of Synonyms for folder
  1. booklet
  2. brochure
  3. leaflet
  4. flyer
  5. pamphlet
Noun
  • Little ones can color, solve puzzles, read stories, and more in this booklet.
    — Anja Webb, Parents, 18 Sep. 2026
  • Guria remains poor enough that a municipal beauty pageant can offer a food processor — beg pardon, a food processor and its instruction booklet — as its top prize.
    — Jessica Kiang, Variety, 16 Sep. 2026
Definition of booklet
Noun
  • Flynn had been for a drink with a girl whose job was to place adverts in the various Festival guides and brochures and who spoke mostly in panegyrics.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 15 Sep. 2026
  • The spa brochure ranges from seashell massages (which, yes, involve giant seashells covered in coconut oil) to traditional Thai rubdowns and every kind of herbal body wrap, detox-scrub and age-defying facial in between.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 Sep. 2026
Definition of brochure
Noun
  • The first online evacuation order came on August 5 for residents of Mansouri, near Tyre, though Israel had already dropped leaflets on the village just a week into the ceasefire, telling ‌residents to leave ahead of strikes.
    — Reuters, NBC news, 6 Sep. 2026
  • Meanwhile, leaflets ordering evacuations pattern the sky like a damned murmuration, and nighttime artillery fire paints striations like inverted fireworks.
    — Ritesh Mehta, IndieWire, 5 Sep. 2026
Definition of leaflet
Noun
  • Just about every Saturday morning, volunteers with Cook County Crime Stoppers post flyers or knock on people's doors in an effort to help solve crimes in the Chicago area.
    — Jermont Terry, CBS News, 18 Sep. 2026
  • The same visual language that once lived on underground rave flyers now feels at home across the internet.
    — Jesse Kirshbaum, SPIN, 18 Sep. 2026
Definition of flyer
Noun
  • In advance of that meeting, letters, pamphlets, and articles started to fly around the nation, debating the meaning of Judaism and the place of the Jews in America.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 22 Sep. 2026
  • As far as our genetic library goes, the Y chromosome seems like a mere pamphlet.
    — Mike McRae September 20, New Atlas, 21 Sep. 2026
Definition of pamphlet

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“Folder.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/folder. Accessed 25 Sep. 2026.

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