asterisk
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On the agency’s website where measles deaths are tallied, there is no number, only an asterisk.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
Some cinema snobs might find Letterboxd a distasteful asterisk on film culture.
From Salon ● Jul. 15, 2026
But the victory came with an asterisk: Folarin Balogun, a Brooklyn-born striker who leads the team in goals, got a red card for fouling an opposing player.
From Slate ● Jul. 6, 2026
There's an asterisk beside that stat, of course.
From BBC ● Jun. 19, 2026
Silky cables trailed from the arrows, arcing over the pool and anchoring where they landed to form a huge golden asterisk.
From "The Lightning Thief" by Rick Riordan
Little by little they found out that some of those things weren’t worth having and all of them came with asterisks.
From Salon ● May 31, 2026
Green festooned his post with lots of hand-waving and magic asterisks to accommodate changes in American lifestyles over the ensuing six decades and come up with his $140,000 standard.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 10, 2025
It has been called "the season of asterisks" but, with Premier League charges and points deductions dominating the news agenda, understanding football finances has become crucial for fans.
From BBC ● Apr. 4, 2024
With several asterisks, qualifications and caveats, Mickey Mouse in his earliest form will be the leader of the band of characters, films and books that will become public domain as the year turns to 2024.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 14, 2023
The magazine was printed somewhere in Maine and full of stenciled poems and descriptive paragraphs separated from each other by asterisks.
From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath
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