marginalia
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Ms. Allen traces pen names, decodes handwriting and deciphers marginalia in Richmond’s correspondence and books.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
A critic could generate a whole book review simply by reproducing her marginalia.
From New York Times ● Apr. 3, 2022
I created a tiny app for tracking my studies and adding marginalia to digitally scanned quotes.
From The Verge ● Mar. 4, 2022
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
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
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