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catalog

[kat-l-awg, -og] / ˈkæt lˌɔg, -ˌɒg /


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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

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

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

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

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

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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