calling card
noun
1
2
: a sign or evidence that someone or something is or has been present
broadly
: an identifying mark
3
: 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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With refined temple details and red-and-gold accents that are a calling card of Louboutin, who can resist?
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Naomi Rougeau, Robb Report, 2 Apr. 2025
And Broadway has a problem because their calling card was always this art brings us all together.
—Elizabeth Stanton, FOXNews.com, 26 Mar. 2025
Its calling cards are the centerpiece (a domed metal structure adorned with leaf forms, under which many photo ops and engagements take place each year) and the labyrinth of rose beds that resemble puzzle pieces set into the ground, giving each planting its own room to grow.
—Caroline Rogers, Southern Living, 24 Mar. 2025
A couple days after the initial symptoms, people sick with measles could develop the illness’s calling card — a red, bumpy rash that starts on the head area and spreads to the rest of the body.
—Danielle J. Brown, Baltimore Sun, 24 Mar. 2025
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Naomi Rougeau, Robb Report, 2 Apr. 2025
And Broadway has a problem because their calling card was always this art brings us all together.
—Elizabeth Stanton, FOXNews.com, 26 Mar. 2025
Its calling cards are the centerpiece (a domed metal structure adorned with leaf forms, under which many photo ops and engagements take place each year) and the labyrinth of rose beds that resemble puzzle pieces set into the ground, giving each planting its own room to grow.
—Caroline Rogers, Southern Living, 24 Mar. 2025
A couple days after the initial symptoms, people sick with measles could develop the illness’s calling card — a red, bumpy rash that starts on the head area and spreads to the rest of the body.
—Danielle J. Brown, Baltimore Sun, 24 Mar. 2025
See All Example Sentences for calling card
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“Calling card.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/calling%20card. Accessed 22 Apr. 2025.
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