card catalog
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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
Nervously, I looked around as I gathered the courage to walk over to the card catalog.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 2, 2023
They are both practical and inspirational, an instruction manual for a new era and a card catalog for a society in crisis.
From Slate • Apr. 6, 2020
She looked up Pauline Hawthorne in the card catalog and found a few books on art history.
From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng
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