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annotation

[an-uh-tay-shuhn] / ˌæn əˈteɪ ʃən /


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Wang formerly served as CEO of Scale AI, a privately held start-up that started as a data labeling and annotation service.

From Barron's ● Apr. 8, 2026

Ana showed the BBC her passport, containing a US business visa with an annotation naming the agency that Brunel set up in the US, Karin Models of America.

From BBC ● Mar. 11, 2026

Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence startup xAI has laid off 500 workers from its data annotation team, which helps train its Grok chatbot.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2025

This highlighted the lack of ancestral diversity in a widely used annotation database.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 4, 2024

Scrolling further down the screen, Charles came across a rather unusual annotation: “You didn’t really think we’d make it that easy, did you?”

From "Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library" by Chris Grabenstein

Some of Pulte’s annotations might give pause to those already worried about him overseeing America’s intelligence community.

From Salon ● Jun. 9, 2026

When Elliott Mossman compiled and translated that correspondence in 1981, his annotations relied on Freidenberg’s recently discovered and voluminous diaries.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026

My annotations helped me come up with a central idea to use for my final paper, but after a point it was no longer an assignment.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 10, 2026

They went on to discover two other novels on his bookshelf also featured annotations by his wife.

From BBC ● Jun. 20, 2025

There had to be at least a hundred annotations, about the Nightbeast’s diet, its preferred season for hibernation, even its favorite snack.

From "Witchlings" by Claribel A. Ortega


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