index card
noun
: a thin paper card used especially for creating an alphabetical index
kept recipes on index cards
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The manuscript, according to the news release, is about the size of an index card — 4-by-5 inches.
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Greta Cross, USA TODAY, 29 Oct. 2024
Things like sticker size, index card color, and push-pin location had to be just right.
—Lizzie Logan, Vulture, 23 Sep. 2024
One of these methods is a pinhole projector, in which small holes (for example, in an index card) can project the image of the sun on a nearby surface.
—Rebecca Schneid, TIME, 29 Sep. 2024
Eclipses can also be viewed indirectly using a pinhole projector such as a hole punched through an index card.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN, 1 Oct. 2024
Viewers can indirectly observe the eclipse by poking a hole through cardboard or an index card and looking at the shadow cast on the ground when the sunlight filters through.
—Tribune News Service, Hartford Courant, 28 Feb. 2024
Instead, those without glasses can utilize an indirect viewing method, such as by using an index card with a hole in it to project an image of the sun onto a nearby surface, the singer explained.
—USA TODAY, 8 Apr. 2024
Those two words have appeared on an index card displayed in Super Bowl champion coach Andy Reid’s office across various stops in his career.
—Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Feb. 2024
What Andy Reid taught John Harbaugh Behind Reid’s desk in Philadelphia was a 3x5 index card on a bulletin board.
—Chris Bumbaca, USA TODAY, 27 Jan. 2024
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Greta Cross, USA TODAY, 29 Oct. 2024
Things like sticker size, index card color, and push-pin location had to be just right.
—Lizzie Logan, Vulture, 23 Sep. 2024
One of these methods is a pinhole projector, in which small holes (for example, in an index card) can project the image of the sun on a nearby surface.
—Rebecca Schneid, TIME, 29 Sep. 2024
Eclipses can also be viewed indirectly using a pinhole projector such as a hole punched through an index card.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN, 1 Oct. 2024
Viewers can indirectly observe the eclipse by poking a hole through cardboard or an index card and looking at the shadow cast on the ground when the sunlight filters through.
—Tribune News Service, Hartford Courant, 28 Feb. 2024
Instead, those without glasses can utilize an indirect viewing method, such as by using an index card with a hole in it to project an image of the sun onto a nearby surface, the singer explained.
—USA TODAY, 8 Apr. 2024
Those two words have appeared on an index card displayed in Super Bowl champion coach Andy Reid’s office across various stops in his career.
—Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Feb. 2024
What Andy Reid taught John Harbaugh Behind Reid’s desk in Philadelphia was a 3x5 index card on a bulletin board.
—Chris Bumbaca, USA TODAY, 27 Jan. 2024
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“Index card.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/index%20card. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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