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file photo
noun
A photograph that is representative of the subject of a news story, but that has been selected from a news organization's existing photo library.
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Tom Eisner in a 2001 file photo.
Mr. Borges, who has a criminal record, was identified by witnesses through a police file photo.
A file photo of David Petraeus, director of the CIA, who announced his resignation today.
Alongside ran a file photo of Mr. Giuliani dancing in drag with the Rockettes.
Even the New Yorker doesn't have a file photo in the office.
Flight attendant Jean Roger of Longmeadow, Massachusetts, is shown in this November 1993 file photo.
The caption on a file photo accompanying this story incorrectly said Cobb was a Denver lawyer.
Undated file photo of Georgetown University public policy professor Leslie Whittington.
Robert Richardson works in his lab in this 1989 file photo.
In this May 20 , 2013file photo, graduates pose for photographs during commencement at Yale University in New Haven, Conn.
American Airlines captain John Ogonowski is shown in a file photo provided by his family.
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