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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

Buyers will choose features and amenities, a la carte, from a catalog of cost-added personalization features.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 20, 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

Did you discuss the strategy and tax impact with him ahead of time and/or did you give him carte blanche to make these kinds of decisions on your behalf?

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 21, 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's rather gratuitous, as I'm eating his bread—or rather, his perfectly gorgeous à la cartes, and am literally smeared with luxury, from my rising up until my lying down, at his expense.

From Set in Silver by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson

Often my eye can no longer remain dry, and I then say his talk does it, which, to be sure, is partly true, but to thee I show the dessous des cartes.

From Titan: A Romance Vol. II (of 2) by Jean Paul

And this time I put the cartes bye, firmly determined that my usual easy and pliant mood in fair company would be my own enemy no more.

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