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footnote

[foot-noht] / ˈfʊtˌnoʊt /
NOUN
note at bottom of document
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After resigning in May, Davies-Jones told the Commons in June that people whose lives were devastated by Epstein's abuse have too often been reduced to a footnote.

From BBC Aug. 5, 2026

For most of modern financial history, longevity was treated as a footnote — a demographic detail, not a driving force.

From MarketWatch Jul. 15, 2026

"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

P&G’s report showed more than $100 million in profits but no taxes in Luxembourg; in a footnote, the company said it offset profits there with prior-year losses and that its Luxembourg operations have ceased.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 30, 2026

This struggle against error brought into being the footnote: the mechanism for ensuring that every fact could be traced to an authorizing statement.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

The idea that this has to be weighted down with law-review articles and footnotes and arcana about the history of a three-part test is a way of obfuscating, right?

From Slate Aug. 10, 2026

When we tell ourselves stories about warrior elites—and invoke their iconography to inspire and galvanize—we often dismiss and ignore their victims as inconvenient or annoying footnotes.

From Slate Jul. 10, 2026

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

Some attendees even paid tribute to one of the most famous footnotes of Obama’s presidency by wearing tan suits, a lighthearted nod to the outfit that once sparked outsized political controversy.

From Salon Jun. 21, 2026

I used to leaf through her book, reading only the footnotes, trying to memorize all those big definitions, trying to understand her indecipherable language.

From "The Science of Breakable Things" by Tae Keller

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

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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