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footnote

[foot-noht] / ˈfʊtˌnoʊt /
NOUN
note at bottom of document
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Early Wednesday morning, with winter looming, they stayed alive with a barrage of simple contact that turned Pratt’s hero moment into a footnote.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026

What happened to Native Californians was also a harbinger, not a footnote.

From Salon ● Oct. 23, 2026

History will deem Field a footnote, while Adelaide will be altogether forgotten.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

From footnote 21 in “ ‘Lord I Am 1’: The Solitary ‘I’ and the Social Lyric,” a 2025 doctoral dissertation in English by Jenna Hart at the University of Illinois Chicago:

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

The new information did not appear in the main text, only in a footnote, and only in the very last edition printed.

From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy

Thanks to the quirks of the accounting rules, those losses don’t appear on Boeing’s income statement and instead are relegated to footnotes about the acquisition.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026

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

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

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

There are asterisks next to my name and footnotes that explain the situation.

From "Wintergirls" by Laurie Halse Anderson

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

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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