card catalog

Example Sentences

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The jury threw not just the book at him, but the entire library, including the shelves and the card catalog:

From Salon • Dec. 17, 2023

"If you want to engineer a balanced immune response, you go to that card catalog, you find the particular TCR genes that, when engineered to build the cell therapy, can provide that balanced response."

From Science Daily • Oct. 25, 2023

He described it as almost being like a digital card catalog, saying the company does not store photos or individual face templates but rather URLs for individual images associated with the facial features they contain.

From New York Times • May 26, 2022

In an 1890s card catalog in his office, the loose finger of a plaster Jesus shares a drawer with Duracell batteries.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 25, 2021

I hate computers for replacing the card catalog in the New York Public Library and I hate the way they’ve invaded the movies.

From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris