calling card
Example Sentences
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Every candidate enters a contest with a backstory and a record, which is condensed to a summary that serves as calling card, strategic foundation and a rationale for their run.
From Los Angeles Times
The Dead’s graphic symbols, including “dancing” bears, the “Stealie” lightning skull and instrument-wielding terrapins, were plastered across innumerable merchandise and became a calling card of hippie-influenced counterculture over the ensuing decades.
From Los Angeles Times
The forester examined the tree and found D-shaped holes — the calling card of the goldspotted oak borer — where the beetles had chewed through the tree to emerge from the bark.
From Los Angeles Times
He prefers to call car rentals a good introduction to Costco Travel, a calling card.
With 2.5 million views on YouTube, the scene became a calling card for the show—and Sheridan’s point of view.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
