card catalog
Example Sentences
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The jury threw not just the book at him, but the entire library, including the shelves and the card catalog:
From Salon • Dec. 17, 2023
"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
Students—at least those in the mortal world—attend Baxter High, a school that time forgot where there are still chalkboards, rows of classic desks, and a library complete with card catalog.
From Slate • Nov. 21, 2018
She looked up Pauline Hawthorne in the card catalog and found a few books on art history.
From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
