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[kat-l-awg, -og] / ˈkæt lˌɔg, -ˌɒg /


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The federal government used to catalog the origins of town names nationwide.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 12, 2026

With 12 works out of the choreographer’s catalog of more than 200 creations—and dating from 1982 to last year—the sampler focused on his dances inspired by American music.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 27, 2026

The battle over Warner Bros. began last year, when media giants Netflix and Paramount went to war over the famed movie studio and its prized back catalog.

From Barron's Jul. 24, 2026

That’s a smile piece, too, although Ono looks all business holding a crystalline hammer on the catalog cover photo.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 21, 2026

And when it came, it was just as perfect as it had looked in the catalog!

From "A Place to Belong" by Cynthia Kadohata

These catalogs are designed to make specialized scientific investigations easier by organizing and enhancing information derived from the main survey data.

From Science Daily Aug. 14, 2026

Most of them, he says, are “sensationalist catalogs of his darkest misdeeds.”

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 10, 2026

Ms. Brown catalogs the patient loads, paperwork and hospital hierarchies that wear nurses down.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 21, 2026

But retail businesses have in many cases lost the consumer trust that originally made their catalogs a promise of consistency and quality.

From Salon Jul. 18, 2026

When the catalogs came, I would take them to my room and map out plans for four years of study.

From "Bad Boy" by Walter Dean Myers

To identify the new species, researchers analyzed 121 cataloged fossil remains, including skulls, teeth, and jaw fragments from dozens of individuals.

From Science Daily Jun. 13, 2026

Crawling into my hotel bed that evening, I cataloged the damage.

From Slate Jun. 5, 2026

They were stored among the museum’s collection of more than eight million objects, millions of which had never been individually cataloged.

From The Wall Street Journal May 21, 2026

Police had tried to mark each one with a little label as they cataloged the crime scene, but there were too many and a few holes appeared to have been missed.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 1, 2025

But this seems unreasonable: modern libraries, after all, keep records of duplicate volumes, and their ancient counterpart was no less carefully cataloged.

From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro

His repeated attempts to flex expensive restaurant bills and hardman tough talk land like a waterlogged handkerchief after he’s spent song after song cataloging all the specific ways we’ve all hurt his feelings.

From Salon May 21, 2026

The surge of immigration detention flights at Minneapolis-Saint Paul airport spurred plane spotter Nick Benson to shift from tracking rare and unusual aircraft to cataloging the removal of detainees from Minnesota.

From Barron's Jan. 29, 2026

In 2013, von Konrat led a team of botanists and volunteers to survey the region, cataloging grasses, trees, and mosses in search of a location that matched the plant material found on the shoes.

From Science Daily Jan. 1, 2026

Similarly, the complex evolution in cataloging and classification practices are more introduced than explained, making it difficult to fully appreciate their significance.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 25, 2025

Mr. Powell was trying to get ahead on his cataloging so that Mrs. Merriam wouldn’t fuss at him, and Lil was speeding ahead on Jane Eyre.

From "Okay for Now" by Gary D. Schmidt

Marshall in 2024, catalogued the system’s due process pathologies and all but invited a broader challenge.

From Slate Jul. 28, 2026

Three hundred years later, Gray’s Anatomy by Henry Gray reinforced the impression that the body had finally been catalogued, indexed and neatly organized – a system mapped and fully explained.

From Science Daily Jun. 21, 2026

Sloth jaws and sabertooth fangs and a truly astonishing amount of ancient vertebrae — all of it will be swaddled, catalogued and crated for the next two years.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 6, 2026

Later historians described this engraving and, despite having never seen the painting, catalogued its existence.

From Barron's Nov. 30, 2025

But like all the other weirdness she’d catalogued that day, was it really all that stunning?

From "The Strangers" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

Buyers and sellers are seeing the biggest differences compared with last year in West Palm Beach, which saw a near-40% increase in pending sales, Redfin data cataloguing the nation’s largest metropolitan areas show.

From Barron's May 26, 2026

“The cataloguing and photographing of the notebook was a valid part of the inventory search,” he wrote.

From The Wall Street Journal May 18, 2026

A graduate program in archival science at Pratt helped him gather focus, while turning him on to the infinite history of sound data and cataloguing.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 8, 2025

That cataloguing is indispensable, but the words and concepts we use for it matter.

From Science Daily Nov. 2, 2025

Stopping before the narrow garage, he sniffed the fumes from Paradise with great sensory pleasure, the protruding hairs in his nostrils analyzing, cataloguing, categorizing, and classifying the distinct odors of hot dog, mustard, and lubricant.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole




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