asterisk
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On the agency’s website where measles deaths are tallied, there is no number, only an asterisk.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
Some cinema snobs might find Letterboxd a distasteful asterisk on film culture.
From Salon ● Jul. 15, 2026
But the victory came with an asterisk: Folarin Balogun, a Brooklyn-born striker who leads the team in goals, got a red card for fouling an opposing player.
From Slate ● Jul. 6, 2026
There's an asterisk beside that stat, of course.
From BBC ● Jun. 19, 2026
I’d hoped to understand the story about Saul and Jonas, put a medical asterisk on that family legend, but if family is important, then the next generation has to get their chance.
From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste
Little by little they found out that some of those things weren’t worth having and all of them came with asterisks.
From Salon ● May 31, 2026
Also, his estimate arose from abstruse economic formulas and lots of magic asterisks.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2025
He added: “We want to move to a new system that people have confidence in and can comply with and move away perhaps from normalising asterisks against league tables or long-running regulatory cases.”
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2024
With several asterisks, qualifications and caveats, Mickey Mouse in his earliest form will be the leader of the band of characters, films and books that will become public domain as the year turns to 2024.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 14, 2023
He straightened, revealing a woman’s face beside the plane, with long wavy hair and eyes like asterisks.
From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri
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