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carte

[kahrt, kart] / kɑrt, kart /
NOUN
bill of fare
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Plus, I didn’t waste hours researching and booking a la carte accommodations myself, where I could easily lose track of the trip’s total price tag.

From MarketWatch Aug. 18, 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

He smiled mysteriously and pulled a much-handled carte de visite from his pocket.

From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly

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

That will give you les dessous de cartes of his character.”

From The Book of Khalid by Ameen Fares Rihani

I am much in want of cartes de visite to distribute on my own account, and am tired and disgusted with all the undesirable likenesses as yet presented of me.

From Yesterdays with Authors by James T. Fields

Himself an excellent swordsman, he luxuriates and excels in the description of points and parries, cartes and tierces, and of the vigorous estocades which his heroes administer to each other.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 57, No. 351, January 1845 by Various




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