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microfiche

[mahy-kruh-feesh] / ˈmaɪ krəˌfiʃ /






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Detectives went hunting for the Help Wanted ad, hunkered over the microfiche machine at the newspaper’s downtown office.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 31, 2025

Decades of police records stored as microfiche were transcribed into three, hefty logbooks for detectives to painstakingly examine.

From BBC Sep. 29, 2022

I eventually found an Orthodox Jewish ophthalmologist who shared his idea for a thriller where the microfiche was hidden in the Hasidic spy's eye.

From Salon Jun. 18, 2022

He said the process will be even more difficult when they get beyond the electronic court record, and have to confirm older convictions on microfiche.

From Seattle Times May 31, 2022

I stopped the microfiche at a photograph in the Amster* dam News.

From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee

Working only with his wife, Grazia, Lotoro had created Last Musik, an institute he has self-funded for three decades, with a repertoire of 4,000 papers and 13,000 microfiches of music sheets, letters, drawings and photos.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 13, 2018

In some ways, Spotlight is a paean to journalism’s archaic methods, as it lovingly dwells on microfiches, card indexes, picture folders and clippings files.

From The Guardian Jan. 21, 2016

I'm old enough to remember card catalogs, microfiches, and needing to go to a library to find what I needed--and even then I was sometimes disappointed.

From Inc Jan. 11, 2013

But delving into those records has itself sometimes been an adventure, requiring searches through indexes, microfiches, file cards and folders in Midtown Manhattan; Long Island City, Queens; and Jerusalem.

From New York Times Mar. 3, 2012




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