marginalia
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And because no year is complete without a bunch of Stephen Sondheim marginalia, I’ve added a few bonus tracks, including a snippet of a surprise, in his honor.
From New York Times • Feb. 29, 2024
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
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
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.