Dominic Raab

Shrouded by the 'dodgy dossier,' which warped opaque intelligence, none of the stated war aims in Iraq spoke to the British national interest. Illusory dreams of bringing Western-style democracy to the Middle East were punctured by failures of planning and strategy, as catalogued before the Chilcot Inquiry.

British Politician

Mariella Frostrup

Quite honestly, if we do manage to destroy the planet with our devil-may-care attitude to natural resources, I'd suggest we leave, as a dossier in our defence, the collected letters to agony aunts and uncles down the generations. It would certainly prove that we weren't all bad!

British Journalist

Kayleigh McEnany

You don't need to be a trained investigator to grasp the blatantly obvious fact that the funding of the Steele dossier by Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign is a crucial piece of information that should have been revealed to the FISA Court.

American Public Servant

Douglas Coupland

You can get a subjective and highly factual dossier on most anyone in the public realm almost instantly. It's why publishers don't worry about author photos any more; people just Google a person and get on with things.

Canadian Author

Geraldine Ferraro

We had prepared, my staff had prepared for me a whole dossier on virtually - on George Bush on his votes on his records, what he had done over the past number of years in public service.

American Politician

Sarah Jeong

People don't object to spying on the grounds that the secret dossier about them might be full of errors. They object to spying because it's spying.

American Journalist

Adam Cohen

A smart phone essentially creates a dossier of your travels, and consumers have no control over who will eventually see that information.

Sudha Kongara

I have this huge dossier on sports that I had collected over 10 years. Every human interest story has been cut out and filed away.

Indian Director

Dominic Grieve

In my brief, home affairs, we have witnessed ministers issue countless dodgy dossiers, fiddle figures and fudge facts.

John Ratcliffe

It's Democrats that created the Steele dossier and pedaled it to our law enforcement and intelligence communities.

Dossier is used in formal settings like legal, investigative, or academic work, not casual conversation.

Context Specific

A dossier often summarizes information impersonally, without expressing opinions or feelings.

Impersonal Feel

A 'detailed dossier' implies thorough research and comprehensive information on the subject.

Thorough Investigation

 and he grabbed the bell, the bell I ring to signal a change or a reconvening of cabinets, and he ran back to his seat, rang the bell. Everybody ran to his there was screaming; there was yelling, waving of their dossiers. They get these dossiers full of secret documents. They were gesticulating; they were running around.

John Hunter: Teaching...

 coalition of women's groups would caress the establishment with the usual blandishments while aids-free world would engage in high-level advocacy at the diplomatic level we shamelessly used the veneer of male privilege to gain access but we needed a blazing dossier