marginalia
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Those marginalia are little workmanships, like the earlier ones of crayon and wool.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
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
My marginalia became a series of handholds on the placid smoothness of the page.
From New York Times ● Nov. 2, 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
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