card catalog
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of card catalog
An Americanism dating back to 1850–55
Example Sentences
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After a day of reviewing cookbooks and recipes from competent, contemporary cooks, I find myself scrolling toward something stranger: accounts that operate like a digital card catalog of retro culinary horror and delight.
From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2025
"If you want to engineer a balanced immune response, you go to that card catalog, you find the particular TCR genes that, when engineered to build the cell therapy, can provide that balanced response."
From Science Daily ● Oct. 25, 2023
He described it as almost being like a digital card catalog, saying the company does not store photos or individual face templates but rather URLs for individual images associated with the facial features they contain.
From New York Times ● May 26, 2022
In an 1890s card catalog in his office, the loose finger of a plaster Jesus shares a drawer with Duracell batteries.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 25, 2021
There's a girl using the online card catalog.
From "Things Not Seen" by Andrew Clements
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