catalog
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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
There’s a $30 exhibition catalog in the gift shop.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026
After that, I started browsing the library website differently: less like a catalog, more like a streaming service with unusually eccentric licensing agreements.
From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2026
“In my opinion, we are operating at the maximum density that can be safely operated,” said Jonathan McDowell, an astrophysicist who maintains a widely cited catalog of objects in space.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026
Noting and repeating my observations only sharpened my mental catalog.
From "Salt to the Sea" by Ruta Sepetys
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A common destination is a Facebook page that catalogs local mug shots with names, ages, arrest dates and charges.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
Among them are catalogs covering black holes, stars, and interstellar gas, along with new visualizations and scientific tools designed to help users explore the enormous dataset.
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
The online retailer started as a family-run business in 2004, when Tatyana Kim, a former English teacher from the suburbs of Moscow, started a business reselling clothing from German mail-order catalogs while on maternity leave.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 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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The fossil, cataloged as MGB-512, is about 50 centimeters long and is housed at the Museum of Natural Sciences of Barcelona.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 15, 2026
Since the 1990s, scientists have cataloged more than 6,300 worlds orbiting stars other than our sun.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026
“Our teams collected and cataloged the gold, then promptly secured it in a high-security federal government vault,” the local police said in a statement on their Facebook page.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
Crawling into my hotel bed that evening, I cataloged the damage.
From Slate ● Jun. 5, 2026
KGB observers bugged CIA agents' phones and cataloged their daily routines.
From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau
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At a time when cataloging travel woes have become such a big part of the cultural conversation, it offers the ultimate escape.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026
Astronomers have spent decades carefully cataloging stars near the Sun, yet white dwarfs in systems like these remain difficult to detect.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 15, 2026
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
Mrs. Merriam was at her desk, cataloging like crazy because I guess it’s the most important thing in the whole wide world.
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
Most of the 485 fossils the scientists catalogued were from different species of beaked whales.
From Barron's ● Jun. 10, 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
Cecilia’s enthusiasm, for example, seemed a little overstated, tainted with condescension perhaps, and intrusive too; her big sister wanted each bound story catalogued and placed on the library shelves, between Rabindranath Tagore and Quintus Tertullian.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
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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
Phineas should have started the sports events but he was absorbed in cataloguing the prizes.
From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles
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