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But retail businesses have in many cases lost the consumer trust that originally made their catalogs a promise of consistency and quality.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