I lost my Application/Utilities folder!

I was double-clicking on my utilities folder (in the Applications folder), and, all of a sudden, it was gone. Now I can't find the Utilities folder anywhere on my computer. I even used the "locate" command in the terminal and was unable to find it. That's an important folder with some important applications in it. Don't know how I'm going to get it back. Would appreciate any help. Thanks.

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