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footnote

[foot-noht] / ˈfʊtˌnoʊt /
NOUN
note at bottom of document
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History will deem Field a footnote, while Adelaide will be altogether forgotten.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

In a footnote, the CDC said it won’t include those “measles associated” deaths pending further investigation by federal health authorities.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

“The Court has doubts that caselaw supports the construction of ‘fugitive’ that Texas is considering,” he wrote in a footnote.

From Slate ● Aug. 28, 2026

One final footnote: If a beneficiary is a minor, the bank generally won’t hand the money over outright.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 26, 2026

When Moushumi had first introduced him to her crowd he and she would sit with their arms around each other, their fellow guests a footnote to their own ongoing conversation.

From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri

The idea that this has to be weighted down with law-review articles and footnotes and arcana about the history of a three-part test is a way of obfuscating, right?

From Slate ● Aug. 10, 2026

Some attendees even paid tribute to one of the most famous footnotes of Obama’s presidency by wearing tan suits, a lighthearted nod to the outfit that once sparked outsized political controversy.

From Salon ● Jun. 21, 2026

Mr. Hilmes’s footnotes indicate that these and other postwar criminals are well documented in police records.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 17, 2026

By the time the SEC had plowed through everything, its rule ran to 300,000 words—that’s the equivalent of “Moby-Dick” plus “The Sun Also Rises”—with well over 3,000 footnotes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 4, 2026

There are asterisks next to my name and footnotes that explain the situation.

From "Wintergirls" by Laurie Halse Anderson

Upward of $10 million, Martha Ackmann reports in “Ain’t Nobody’s Fool,” a deeply detailed, and footnoted, account of Ms. Parton’s life and career.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 2, 2026

Another was footnoted with the words "official – sensitive" which, according to government guidance, can in some cases mean the information could lead to a "threat to life" if compromised.

From BBC ● Mar. 28, 2025

Sprigman, whose research into constitutional change is footnoted in the commission's report, argues that the Constitution is ill-equipped to handle many modern public policy questions — including complex healthcare reform.

From Salon ● Jul. 29, 2024

This is the Fellas … you know what I’m talking about defense, although it is not footnoted as such.

From Slate ● Jun. 1, 2024

And, with his help, by spring I have a 112-page thesis, researched, footnoted, documented, and neatly bound in black leather.

From "Tuesdays with Morrie" by Mitch Albom

But the results are hit-and-miss, according to The Verge: While Bard is faster than its rivals, it still suffered from errors, and it lacks Bing’s extensive footnoting.

From New York Times ● Mar. 22, 2023

Most Americans probably have a hard time imagining future historians ever footnoting American democracy with beginning and end dates.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 28, 2022

In a 37-minute press conference on September 17, 1987 — the third day of the Bork hearings —Biden only copped to an unintentional footnoting gaffe.

From Fox News ● May 2, 2019

Often compared to an electronic version of the footnoting system used by researchers the world over, hypertext underpins the web, enabling you to jump from one source of information to another.

From Scientific American ● Sep. 13, 2018

Often he defers to their words, footnoting his own advice, even though he obviously thought the same things himself.

From "Tuesdays with Morrie" by Mitch Albom


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