footnote
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Last October is a dash in the government’s database, with a footnote that reads like an epitaph: “Data unavailable due to the 2025 lapse in appropriations.”
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 11, 2026
What happened to Native Californians was also a harbinger, not a footnote.
From Salon ● Oct. 23, 2026
History will deem Field a footnote, while Adelaide will be altogether forgotten.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026
He’d be little more than a footnote in another Yankees disappointment.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
He was a footnote in his own family.
From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman
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The combined value of off-balance-sheet, AI-related commitments nine top tech companies reported in footnotes of their most recent securities filings, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
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
When we tell ourselves stories about warrior elites—and invoke their iconography to inspire and galvanize—we often dismiss and ignore their victims as inconvenient or annoying footnotes.
From Slate ● Jul. 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
“Sorry. ‘Critically respected in Europe during his lifetime, Ayrs is now rarely referred to outside the footnotes of twentieth-century music.’”
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
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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
Our world requires that decisions be sourced and footnoted, and if we say how we feel, we must also be prepared to elaborate on why we feel that way.
From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell
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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
“He recognizes the headline he created yesterday is more important than all the footnoting and cleaning up that comes afterward,” Mr. Thavis said.
From New York Times ● Oct. 22, 2020
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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