footnote
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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
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
He had at least two hours before the Master Librarian woke from his fitful sleep and came padding among the bookshelves to check a cross-reference, a footnote, a scribble in the margins.
From "The Reader" by Traci Chee
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Reporters programmatically extracted compensation tables, footnotes and other explanations of perquisites mentioned in the filings and fed the results to an LLM which parsed the amount, type and beneficiary of each perk.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 25, 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
She talks about all those pretty scientific words, all those Big Terms, and justifies all those footnotes in her book.
From "The Science of Breakable Things" by Tae Keller
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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
Our world requires that decisions be sourced and footnoted, and if we say how we feel, we must also be prepared to elaborate on why we feel that way.
From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell
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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
“He recognizes the headline he created yesterday is more important than all the footnoting and cleaning up that comes afterward,” Mr. Thavis said.
From New York Times ● Oct. 22, 2020
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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