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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An index card slipped from its fellows and fell to the ground.
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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
In the fall of 2018, Kelsey set up a desk in my small office and began covering the walls with sticky notes and index cards.
—Literary Hub, 10 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
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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
In the fall of 2018, Kelsey set up a desk in my small office and began covering the walls with sticky notes and index cards.
—Literary Hub, 10 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
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“Index card.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/index%20card. Accessed 2 Feb. 2026.
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