index card
noun
plural index cards
: a rectangular piece of thick paper used especially for creating an alphabetical index
kept recipes on index cards
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Visitors on Thursday can fill out index cards or share their thoughts with a court reporter.
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Frederick Melo, Twin Cities, 18 Feb. 2026
Otlet first experimented with cutting lines out of books and pasting them onto index cards.
—Big Think, 9 Feb. 2026
On the table, lay out index cards, ribbon, and markers.
—Kylie Petty, Better Homes & Gardens, 8 Feb. 2026
School officials gathered and answered the questions scribbled on index cards.
—Jessica Ma, Dallas Morning News, 2 Feb. 2026
An index card slipped from its fellows and fell to the ground.
—Nell Freudenberger, Harpers Magazine, 27 Jan. 2026
This simple recipe box is made from bamboo and is spacious enough to hold 4-by-6-inch index cards.
—Alicia Geigel, Southern Living, 18 Nov. 2025
Items that would have been up for auction included letters written by prisoners in concentration camps, as well as Gestapo index cards and other perpetrator documents, The Associated Press reported, citing German news agency dpa.
—Alex Nitzberg, FOXNews.com, 17 Nov. 2025
He was handed a 3×5 index card with the tipster’s name and phone number.
—Joshua Goodman, Fortune, 28 Oct. 2025
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Frederick Melo, Twin Cities, 18 Feb. 2026
Otlet first experimented with cutting lines out of books and pasting them onto index cards.
—Big Think, 9 Feb. 2026
On the table, lay out index cards, ribbon, and markers.
—Kylie Petty, Better Homes & Gardens, 8 Feb. 2026
School officials gathered and answered the questions scribbled on index cards.
—Jessica Ma, Dallas Morning News, 2 Feb. 2026
An index card slipped from its fellows and fell to the ground.
—Nell Freudenberger, Harpers Magazine, 27 Jan. 2026
This simple recipe box is made from bamboo and is spacious enough to hold 4-by-6-inch index cards.
—Alicia Geigel, Southern Living, 18 Nov. 2025
Items that would have been up for auction included letters written by prisoners in concentration camps, as well as Gestapo index cards and other perpetrator documents, The Associated Press reported, citing German news agency dpa.
—Alex Nitzberg, FOXNews.com, 17 Nov. 2025
He was handed a 3×5 index card with the tipster’s name and phone number.
—Joshua Goodman, Fortune, 28 Oct. 2025
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“Index card.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/index%20card. Accessed 22 Feb. 2026.
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