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appendix

[uh-pen-diks] / əˈpɛn dɪks /


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He described how his wife was determined to get better and sought private treatment at the Christie cancer treatment centre in Manchester, which included the removal of her appendix.

From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026

The appendix, once considered a completely useless evolutionary left-over, is now thought to have minor immune functions.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 11, 2026

Mr. Goodspeed’s 200 pages of text are dense, and they are followed by substantial notes and a data appendix.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026

Some of the most illuminating material in “Defending Taiwan” arrives in an appendix, where the author interviews four prominent figures in Taipei.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 14, 2026

Second, in an appendix to the sunspot book, Galileo made his only clear and unambiguous published statement of support for Copernican ideas, using the example of the moons of Jupiter to support his case.

From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin

The U.S. blueprint has been spelled out in appendices to current peace proposals that aren’t public but were described to The Wall Street Journal by U.S. and European officials.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 10, 2025

Maser said even including the provisions in the appendices “is a step forward from the 2021 code,” which did not have such provisions at all.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 14, 2024

Lynda Claassen: Have you thought about, or have you found out anything about the publication of my appendices or copelata work?

From Scientific American ● Oct. 5, 2023

In three appendices to his book, Turchin provides a non-technical explanation of his approach to understanding history and how it developed over time.

From Salon ● Jun. 25, 2023

I had finished the book but there were still the appendices.

From "Darius the Great Is Not Okay" by Adib Khorram

Based largely on the appendixes — the appendixes! — to “The Lord of the Rings” novel, it takes place some 3,000 years before the events of that book.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 31, 2022

The report, a mere nine pages including two appendixes, does not identify the mysterious unidentified phenomena—neither as mundane human technology nor anything extraterrestrial.

From Slate ● Jun. 29, 2021

If you want more practical help than that, Saunders provides some exercises in the appendixes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 7, 2021

Host Meagan Cantwell talks with Viviane Labrie of the Van Andel Institute in Grand Rapids, Michigan, about new research suggesting people without their appendixes have a reduced risk of Parkinson’s.

From Science Magazine ● Nov. 1, 2018

Biobanks store appendixes, ovaries, skin, sphincters, testicles, fat, even foreskins from most circumcisions.

From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot




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