calling card
noun
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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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Harmon’s calling card is defense, and that part of her game remains unimpeachable.
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Sabreena Merchant, The Athletic, 20 Jan. 2025
Zwerin’s status as the third Maysles was both her calling card and her curse.
—Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 20 Jan. 2025
The chassis shows off some flashy RGB, most notably along the front edge, which has become a calling card for the Raider.
—Matthew Buzzi, PCMAG, 7 Jan. 2025
So upward mobility became the calling card of American life.
—Jennie Rothenberg Gritz, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Jan. 2025
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Sabreena Merchant, The Athletic, 20 Jan. 2025
Zwerin’s status as the third Maysles was both her calling card and her curse.
—Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 20 Jan. 2025
The chassis shows off some flashy RGB, most notably along the front edge, which has become a calling card for the Raider.
—Matthew Buzzi, PCMAG, 7 Jan. 2025
So upward mobility became the calling card of American life.
—Jennie Rothenberg Gritz, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Jan. 2025
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“Calling card.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/calling%20card. Accessed 27 Jan. 2025.
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