as in rubs
to make smooth by friction
beautifully filed nails that obviously had been done by a manicurist
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as in marches
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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Recent Examples of files
PCMAG, 3 Oct. 2024
Among the ways hospitals aren’t complying include missing or incomplete pricing, unusable files that are difficult or impossible to open to access pricing data, or posted multiple files instead of one as mandated by the federal government.
—Jade Gomez, People.com, 3 Oct. 2024
By default, McAfee only scans new files, meaning files that weren’t present during its previous scan.
—PCMAG, 3 Oct. 2024
Ream has received multiple awards for stellar performance, and her personnel files include glowing reviews from her supervisors.
—Megan Rodriguez, San Antonio Express-News, 2 Oct. 2024
The home section has been redesigned slightly to combine recent, favorites, and shared files into a tabbed view.
—Tom Warren, The Verge, 1 Oct. 2024
Noun
File Shredder, as expected, deletes files so thoroughly that even forensic software can’t recover them.
—PCMAG, 3 Oct. 2024
Among the ways hospitals aren’t complying include missing or incomplete pricing, unusable files that are difficult or impossible to open to access pricing data, or posted multiple files instead of one as mandated by the federal government.
—Jade Gomez, People.com, 3 Oct. 2024
By default, McAfee only scans new files, meaning files that weren’t present during its previous scan.
—PCMAG, 3 Oct. 2024
Ream has received multiple awards for stellar performance, and her personnel files include glowing reviews from her supervisors.
—Megan Rodriguez, San Antonio Express-News, 2 Oct. 2024
The home section has been redesigned slightly to combine recent, favorites, and shared files into a tabbed view.
—Tom Warren, The Verge, 1 Oct. 2024
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“Files.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/files. Accessed 30 Nov. 2024.
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