Each time she tells a joke she has it printed on an index card and then files it away.

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Upon check-in, you were issued an index card that was either pink and read EXAM in Magic Marker or was purple and tagged COLLECTION.

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The word written on an index card (changes for each game).

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If a restaurant chooses to note your preferences, that information may be typed into its OpenTable System manually just as a restaurant might write a note on an index card.

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The GenVault plate, the size of an index card and slightly thicker, contains 384 tiny wells, each lined on the bottom with special paper and prefilled with a strand of synthetic rice DNA, varying in length and sequence.

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