carte
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Emery was handed carte blanche to change Villa when he was appointed as Steven Gerrard's successor, and he has transformed them from Premier League strugglers to Europa League winners and Champions League challengers.
From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026
Airlines have been fine-tuning a la carte pricing strategies to take advantage of demand for premium perks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026
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
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
We don’t think she’ll tell them the name on the forged Katharina Habicht carte d’identité.
From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein
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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
Himself an excellent swordsman, he luxuriates and excels in the description of points and parries, cartes and tierces, and of the vigorous estocades which his heroes administer to each other.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 57, No. 351, January 1845 by Various
Then there were tiny cartes of Manfred’s father and mother—regular horrors they must have been, so Polly thought resentfully.
From Good Old Anna by Marie Belloc Lowndes
"Aux cartes;" and further on "This time I have a great deal pack," "Cette fois j'ai un jeu excellent!"
From English as she is spoke or, A jest in sober earnest by José da Fonseca
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