directory

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Gamestop’s official store directory showed many California stores closed all week.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 16, 2026

And the second was the directory in which the file was put ahead of publication allowed anyone to download a file directly.

From BBC • Dec. 1, 2025

New York City’s telephone company in 1886 published the first Yellow Pages directory of business phone numbers—creating a nearly friction-free way for merchants and customers to find one another.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 15, 2025

Picture this: Panda Express, Jamba Juice and a combo Dunkin’-Baskin Robbins all within eyesight of one another — a food-court fever dream ripped straight from a 2003 mall directory.

From Salon • Oct. 21, 2025

Unfortunately she had mislaid or lost Mademoiselle Reisz’s card, and looking up her address in the city directory, she found that the woman lived on Bienville Street, some distance away.

From "The Awakening" by Kate Chopin