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After resigning in May, Davies-Jones told the Commons in June that people whose lives were devastated by Epstein's abuse have too often been reduced to a footnote.

From BBC ● Aug. 5, 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

The gifts, which add up to more than $120,000 in face value, amount to something of a footnote in an otherwise lengthy financial disclosure that stretches more than 900 pages.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026

I fear there are many years left in this age, and that it will not quickly fade into political obsolescence, becoming a curiosity or historical footnote.

From Salon ● Jun. 23, 2026

Even for geologists it barely rates a footnote.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson

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

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

Securities filings are packed with repetitive legalese few will read, while the juicy bits in the footnotes require some expertise to understand.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 12, 2026

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

From Slate ● Apr. 20, 2026

But then came the crisis: the domed silence; the dusty pages of books all around me; the days accumulating in lists of obsequious footnotes; the wandering doubts about the value of scholarship.

From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez

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

Constant footnoting is exhausting — a drag on the festivities and also on the drama.

From New York Times ● Jun. 10, 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