calling card
noun
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: a sign or evidence that someone or something is or has been present
broadly
: an identifying mark
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: a card displaying a number that can be used to charge telephone calls to a single account regardless of where the calls are placed
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Rife’s cartoonishly sculpted pop-star looks, which had once been a calling card, also began attracting mockery.
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Carrie Battan, The New Yorker, 13 Aug. 2024
Choose discipline over bravado, and let your results be your calling card.
—Eugenia Last, The Mercury News, 15 Aug. 2024
But across Southeast Asia, the group has left its signature calling card: the suicide bombing.
—Zachary Abuza, Foreign Affairs, 16 Sep. 2019
This campaign season has exploded across social media, with younger voters sharing cat memes (a nod to Trump’s running mate, JD Vance) and coconut tree emojis (a calling card for Harris supporters).
—Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 9 Aug. 2024
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Carrie Battan, The New Yorker, 13 Aug. 2024
Choose discipline over bravado, and let your results be your calling card.
—Eugenia Last, The Mercury News, 15 Aug. 2024
But across Southeast Asia, the group has left its signature calling card: the suicide bombing.
—Zachary Abuza, Foreign Affairs, 16 Sep. 2019
This campaign season has exploded across social media, with younger voters sharing cat memes (a nod to Trump’s running mate, JD Vance) and coconut tree emojis (a calling card for Harris supporters).
—Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 9 Aug. 2024
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“Calling card.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/calling%20card. Accessed 1 Oct. 2024.
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