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

The strikethroughs and marginalia of Sylvia Plath’s manuscripts can deliver multiple monologues, showing us all that the finished poem leaves unsaid.

From Washington Post • Feb. 8, 2022

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

From Slate • Apr. 29, 2021

Each an epic, the episodes contain so much data and dredged-up Nashville marginalia that you are left equal parts dumbfounded and enriched.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 22, 2021

The vines were beautiful, deep green against the glowing sun-kissed stone, like the illuminated marginalia in a manuscript.

From "The Inquisitor's Tale" by Adam Gidwitz