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Take all this into account, and it places an asterisk against the Premier League between 2009 and 2018.

From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026

Simpson’s last opportunity to trot around the bases came at Georgia Tech in 2022, but even that came with a giant asterisk.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 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

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

Green festooned his post with lots of hand-waving and magic asterisks to accommodate changes in American lifestyles over the ensuing six decades and come up with his $140,000 standard.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 10, 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

A number of the authors’ names have been starred with penciled asterisks by previous readers, but there is no sign or mark by Nikolai Gogol’s name.

From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri