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marginalia

[mahr-juh-ney-lee-uh, -neyl-yuh] / ˌmɑr dʒəˈneɪ li ə, -ˈneɪl jə /




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Ms. Allen traces pen names, decodes handwriting and deciphers marginalia in Richmond’s correspondence and books.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 12, 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

But these marginalia contradicted the text, because the ivy was silently eating away at the mortar between the stones and would one day bring the walls down.

From "The Inquisitor's Tale" by Adam Gidwitz




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