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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

McDonald’s moved in late 2002 to an a la carte dollar menu, which didn’t feature Coke drinks as prominently as the value meals.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 13, 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

It was the nightfall when we were turned into the presence of Sir Alasdair, who was sitting under a few ells of canvas playing cartes with some chieftains by the light of a fir-root fire.

From John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn by Neil Munro

These cartes lap over somewhat into Germany, Belgium, Italy, and Spain, and are very good.

From The Automobilist Abroad by M. F. (Milburg Francisco) Mansfield

His cartes de visite—no, I beg pardon, his caravans de visite—are numerous and varied.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, January 17, 1891 by Various