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footnote

[foot-noht] / ˈfʊtˌnoʊt /
NOUN
note at bottom of document
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Played as a maudlin admission that she’s a fallen woman, this scene would doom the play to a dusty footnote in O’Neill’s oeuvre.

From The Wall Street Journal

Just as a footnote, in last week's column I asked you whether the Premier League is better now than 10 or 20 years ago.

From BBC

“No investigation may be opened based solely on activities protected by the First Amendment or the lawful exercise of rights secured by the Constitution or laws of the United States,” the footnote says.

From Los Angeles Times

Ms. Collinsworth provides few footnotes and no index, and at times veers close to the line between fiction and nonfiction.

From The Wall Street Journal

Mr. Loomis includes a bibliography but no footnotes, leaving us guessing about his other sources.

From The Wall Street Journal