index card
noun
plural index cards
: a rectangular piece of thick paper used especially for creating an alphabetical index
kept recipes on index cards
Examples of index card in a Sentence
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He was handed a 3×5 index card with the tipster’s name and phone number.
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Joshua Goodman, Fortune, 28 Oct. 2025
To conduct the drawing, Nally presented each candidate with a white index card with their name written on it.
—Samantha Moilanen, Chicago Tribune, 23 Apr. 2025
An example would be an index card with a hole punched through it.
—Jeremy Tanner, The Hill, 25 Mar. 2025
An index card in the middle of the board said Mudcrutch Needs . . .
—Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 16 Mar. 2025
Each player was handed an index card and told to write personal goals for the season.
—Brendan Quinn, The Athletic, 22 Feb. 2025
Reeling under Woolf’s gaze, the narrator writes out the racist passage on an index card and tears it to shreds.
—Dan Piepenbring, Harper's Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025
The manuscript, according to the news release, is about the size of an index card — 4-by-5 inches.
—Greta Cross, USA TODAY, 29 Oct. 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
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Joshua Goodman, Fortune, 28 Oct. 2025
To conduct the drawing, Nally presented each candidate with a white index card with their name written on it.
—Samantha Moilanen, Chicago Tribune, 23 Apr. 2025
An example would be an index card with a hole punched through it.
—Jeremy Tanner, The Hill, 25 Mar. 2025
An index card in the middle of the board said Mudcrutch Needs . . .
—Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 16 Mar. 2025
Each player was handed an index card and told to write personal goals for the season.
—Brendan Quinn, The Athletic, 22 Feb. 2025
Reeling under Woolf’s gaze, the narrator writes out the racist passage on an index card and tears it to shreds.
—Dan Piepenbring, Harper's Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025
The manuscript, according to the news release, is about the size of an index card — 4-by-5 inches.
—Greta Cross, USA TODAY, 29 Oct. 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
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“Index card.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/index%20card. Accessed 13 Nov. 2025.
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