footnote
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"We will not let this death be reduced to a footnote in this administration's enforcement statistics," said Crystal Cron, executive director of Presente Maine.
From Barron's ● Jul. 13, 2026
The gifts, which add up to more than $120,000 in face value, amount to something of a footnote in an otherwise lengthy financial disclosure that stretches more than 900 pages.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026
In a small-type footnote that comprises “References and Notes,” Socolow and Pacala list BP and Ford as sponsors of the Carbon Mitigation Initiative and thank Mottershead as a BP employee, along with several other scientists.
From Salon ● Jun. 26, 2026
Time marches on, and one era’s sensational renegade becomes a footnote in the next.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2026
Enough to make her way through the lengthy index and perhaps find her answer in a sub-subparagraph or footnote?
From "Son" by Lois Lowry
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Selections are described in the table of contents; footnotes running through the text would have been more convenient.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026
Elaborately framed as the translation of a rediscovered travel memoir, complete with fictional footnotes, many readers thought it was about a genuine historic text when the book was first published in 2020.
From BBC ● May 19, 2026
And yet those, too, were just footnotes to the even larger problem.
From Slate ● Apr. 20, 2026
“Cosmic Music” is over 400 pages long, and that includes 36 pages of footnotes.
From Salon ● Apr. 14, 2026
By the way, all the footnotes on this page have math in them and are therefore strictly optional.
From "An Abundance of Katherines" by John Green
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Upward of $10 million, Martha Ackmann reports in “Ain’t Nobody’s Fool,” a deeply detailed, and footnoted, account of Ms. Parton’s life and career.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 2, 2026
Another was footnoted with the words "official – sensitive" which, according to government guidance, can in some cases mean the information could lead to a "threat to life" if compromised.
From BBC ● Mar. 28, 2025
Sprigman, whose research into constitutional change is footnoted in the commission's report, argues that the Constitution is ill-equipped to handle many modern public policy questions — including complex healthcare reform.
From Salon ● Jul. 29, 2024
This is the Fellas … you know what I’m talking about defense, although it is not footnoted as such.
From Slate ● Jun. 1, 2024
And, with his help, by spring I have a 112-page thesis, researched, footnoted, documented, and neatly bound in black leather.
From "Tuesdays with Morrie" by Mitch Albom
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But the results are hit-and-miss, according to The Verge: While Bard is faster than its rivals, it still suffered from errors, and it lacks Bing’s extensive footnoting.
From New York Times ● Mar. 22, 2023
Most Americans probably have a hard time imagining future historians ever footnoting American democracy with beginning and end dates.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 28, 2022
In a 37-minute press conference on September 17, 1987 — the third day of the Bork hearings —Biden only copped to an unintentional footnoting gaffe.
From Fox News ● May 2, 2019
Often compared to an electronic version of the footnoting system used by researchers the world over, hypertext underpins the web, enabling you to jump from one source of information to another.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 13, 2018
Often he defers to their words, footnoting his own advice, even though he obviously thought the same things himself.
From "Tuesdays with Morrie" by Mitch Albom
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