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
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
There is an old card catalog Offill lugged home one day as a present for her husband, and a chalkboard marking planting dates for his sugar snap peas and baby bok choy.
From New York Times ● Feb. 5, 2020
Etienne helped Hugo navigate the card catalog so he could find the book he needed and then brought him to the correct shelf.
From "The Invention of Hugo Cabret" by Brian Selznick
