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footnote

[foot-noht] / ˈfʊtˌnoʊt /
NOUN
note at bottom of document
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"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

Time marches on, and one era’s sensational renegade becomes a footnote in the next.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 19, 2026

But that denouement is but a footnote to their much more significant collaboration in the years of the American crisis.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 12, 2026

“The Trustees’ fertility assumptions are not a technical footnote.

From MarketWatch Jun. 1, 2026

He had at least two hours before the Master Librarian woke from his fitful sleep and came padding among the bookshelves to check a cross-reference, a footnote, a scribble in the margins.

From "The Reader" by Traci Chee

Much about this car now feels like a collection of footnotes in a history book.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 13, 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

And yet those, too, were just footnotes to the even larger problem.

From Slate Apr. 20, 2026

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

From Salon Apr. 14, 2026

Now I have bent close with a glass over the small print of her and reread the footnotes, and I wonder if it was true.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck

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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