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carte

[kahrt, kart] / kɑrt, kart /
NOUN
bill of fare
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In a statement, the Justice Department said the Epstein Files Transparency Act doesn’t require “disclosure of victim-identifying information carte blanche, and New Mexico has provided no lawful basis to justify such sweeping disclosures.”

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 5, 2026

Such emotional familiarity ensures that even a quick dinner over sandwiches in the park can provide us with conversational carte blanche, a space to decompress and demystify without judgment.

From Salon Jul. 5, 2026

While the broad move toward cord cutting and a la carte programming has put significant pressure on pay-TV providers, it has also created a plethora of unforeseen problems for streaming services.

From MarketWatch May 28, 2026

Immigration agents, I noted, were acting as though they had carte blanche to detain people suspected of being in the U.S. illegally, conducting raids that sometimes swept up American citizens.

From Los Angeles Times May 27, 2026

We don’t think she’ll tell them the name on the forged Katharina Habicht carte d’identité.

From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein

One scholar of feline memology notes that in the 1870s, photographs of cats were put on cutesy cartes de visite.

From Slate Apr. 5, 2013

Yet he also adorned many of them with elaborate hand-drawn frames, a devotional touch that evokes cartes de visites and other early, personal forms of photography.

From New York Times Feb. 11, 2010

And cartes de visite are most assuredly the playthings for children of an older growth, most in vogue at the present day.

From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 3, March, 1862 by Various

"Item; they shall not be common Hunters ne Hawkers, ne playe at gammes prohibytede, as dycese and cartes, and such oder."

From Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance by Thomas Frognall Dibdin

She could not tell why she took the cartes out of the envelope and ran them listlessly through her fingers; but at the last of the package she uttered a cry.

From Stories That End Well An Adventure in Altruria——Through the Terrors of the Law——The Real Thing——The Old Partisan——Max—Or His Picture——The Stout Miss Hopkins' Bicycle——The Spellbinder——The Object of the Federation——The Little Lonely Girl——The Hero of Company G——A Miracle Play by Octave Thanet




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