marginalia

Example Sentences

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I created a tiny app for tracking my studies and adding marginalia to digitally scanned quotes.

From The Verge • Mar. 4, 2022

My marginalia became a series of handholds on the placid smoothness of the page.

From New York Times • Nov. 2, 2021

All the while, Rumsfeld produced his proverbs, doodling mystic marginalia in the pages of history, reducing war and torture and other awful realities into blunt queries and gruff turns of phrase.

From Washington Post • Jul. 1, 2021

It was hard to imagine any other teacher spending all that time jotting personalized marginalia.

From Slate • Apr. 29, 2021

But these marginalia contradicted the text, because the ivy was silently eating away at the mortar between the stones and would one day bring the walls down.

From "The Inquisitor's Tale" by Adam Gidwitz