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[kat-l-awg, -og] / ˈkæt lˌɔg, -ˌɒg /


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We made notes about what should get added to the radio catalog as fodder for our aspiring DJs — and what should get chucked out or given away for free at radio events.

From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2026

The musician, curator, TV producer, visual artist and collector has an ongoing exhibition from her personal catalog of L.A. punk artifacts and ephemera.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026

It previously owned Taylor Swift’s master recordings but sold the catalog back to the pop star in 2025.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026

The Breeders’ catalog is full of singalong possibilities thanks to their fondness for lyrics that aren’t words.

From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2026

She thrusts the fashion catalog at me so that I can see the bustle, which juts out of the rear of the woman’s hips and makes her look like a demented wasp.

From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland

Students spent weeks searching library catalogs, locating journal articles, reading books, organizing notes, developing arguments, drafting and revising.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

Shamrock’s media holdings include investments in content catalogs with songs by Beyoncé, Coldplay and Rihanna, as well as films and videogames.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026

"This infrastructure will take us from catalogs to cosmological interpretation," Eifler said.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 28, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026

As I started to brainstorm how to get the most scholarship money for college, I again paged through my catalogs and I noticed something I hadn’t noticed before.

From "Proud" by Ibtihaj Muhammad

The reports cataloged personal information and points of leverage that can eventually be exploited.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

The cataloged facts of her age, place of birth, and marital status suggest the breadth of a life he does not know, and he is seized with the curiosity to find her.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

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

But in the heart of this chaos, Tyler had half a decade’s pencil shavings, cataloged by year.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover

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

There’s also the much more fiercely debated trend of cataloging micro-aesthetics—sorting every conceivable vibe into named categories like “dark academia” or “coastal grandmother,” each with its own dress code and playlist.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 20, 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

It was perhaps the haphazard approach to cataloging that allowed one of the most impressive artifacts to sit unnoticed—first in an open courtyard and then in a remote corner of the museum.

From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler

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

"Winnie the Pooh is all of us," said Kevin Kern, senior manager of research at the Walt Disney Archives in Burbank, California, where all kinds of Pooh paraphernalia are neatly catalogued.

From Barron's ● Mar. 10, 2026

Artemis catalogued the events of the last few minutes.

From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer

The document was uncovered by a volunteer in February while cataloguing the papers of Royal Navy captains from the American Revolutionary War.

From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026

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

In the distance she saw smoke rising from a farmhouse chimney, and two figures moved slowly in the empty field as if cataloguing their losses.

From "Huntress" by Malinda Lo




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