marginalia
Example Sentences
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At first it appears messy, improvised and oblique — the sculptural equivalent of marginalia.
From Washington Post • Apr. 14, 2023
I created a tiny app for tracking my studies and adding marginalia to digitally scanned quotes.
From The Verge • Mar. 4, 2022
One of my favorites is the catalog that accompanies Swann’s annual LGBTQ+ Art, Material Culture & History sale, which includes more than 200 items of queer marginalia from the Civil War era to today.
From New York Times • Mar. 1, 2022
As Bromley’s marginalia shows, the attack on his Remarks had left Tories smarting and presented a new model for satirically attacking the publications of one’s political enemies.
From Slate • Feb. 21, 2022
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
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
