greeting card
noun
: a piece of paper or thin cardboard having any of a variety of shapes and formats and bearing a greeting or message of sentiment
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More than half of that sum will go to Valentine’s candy, beating out flowers, greeting cards, evenings out, and jewelry, as the most profitable segment of holiday spending.
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Madeline Fitzgerald, Quartz, 11 Feb. 2025
Postal workers in Virginia and North Carolina have been charged with stealing more than $1 million worth of checks, while mail clerks have been nabbed searching greeting cards for gift cards.
—David Williams, Baltimore Sun, 16 Jan. 2025
The new works are two-dimensional sublimities of color, texture, and complexity, as if fellow Angeleno Jonas Wood’s large smooth paintings had been mixed with Matisse, the Pattern and Decoration painters of the 1970s (most of whom were women), and Hallmark greeting cards.
—Jerry Saltz, Vulture, 9 Oct. 2024
The photographers were taking pictures, and each of them is picking up souvenirs, like greeting cards and stuff, and shoving them into their pants.
—Susan Mulcahy, Curbed, 17 Sep. 2024
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Madeline Fitzgerald, Quartz, 11 Feb. 2025
Postal workers in Virginia and North Carolina have been charged with stealing more than $1 million worth of checks, while mail clerks have been nabbed searching greeting cards for gift cards.
—David Williams, Baltimore Sun, 16 Jan. 2025
The new works are two-dimensional sublimities of color, texture, and complexity, as if fellow Angeleno Jonas Wood’s large smooth paintings had been mixed with Matisse, the Pattern and Decoration painters of the 1970s (most of whom were women), and Hallmark greeting cards.
—Jerry Saltz, Vulture, 9 Oct. 2024
The photographers were taking pictures, and each of them is picking up souvenirs, like greeting cards and stuff, and shoving them into their pants.
—Susan Mulcahy, Curbed, 17 Sep. 2024
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“Greeting card.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/greeting%20card. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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