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For most of modern financial history, longevity was treated as a footnote — a demographic detail, not a driving force.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 15, 2026

"We will not let this death be reduced to a footnote in this administration's enforcement statistics," said Crystal Cron, executive director of Presente Maine.

From Barron's ● Jul. 13, 2026

P&G’s report showed more than $100 million in profits but no taxes in Luxembourg; in a footnote, the company said it offset profits there with prior-year losses and that its Luxembourg operations have ceased.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026

In a small-type footnote that comprises “References and Notes,” Socolow and Pacala list BP and Ford as sponsors of the Carbon Mitigation Initiative and thank Mottershead as a BP employee, along with several other scientists.

From Salon ● Jun. 26, 2026

Their names are like names in a footnote, or names written in spidery brown ink in the fronts of Bibles.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood

These aspects of his career, while usually mentioned as footnotes to his artistic output, are indispensable to understanding his philosophy as a painter.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 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

Elaborately framed as the translation of a rediscovered travel memoir, complete with fictional footnotes, many readers thought it was about a genuine historic text when the book was first published in 2020.

From BBC ● May 19, 2026

“Cosmic Music” is over 400 pages long, and that includes 36 pages of footnotes.

From Salon ● Apr. 14, 2026

It had intricate footnotes and detailed explanations as to the playwright’s meaning.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith

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

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