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annotate

[an-uh-tayt] / ˈæn əˌteɪt /


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His team had to annotate 15,000 videos of the robots doing the jobs.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2025

She would annotate each image with an arrow, directing my next move, and send it back.

From Slate ● Aug. 4, 2025

They must be able — with full certainty — to annotate and explain data they cite and how they reach conclusions.

From Seattle Times ● May 20, 2024

Researchers annotate viruses by matching viral sequences in a sample to previously annotated sequences available in public databases of viral genetic sequences.

From Salon ● May 17, 2024

“Oh, I can’t wait to analyze and annotate them,” said Millard, rubbing his hands together.

From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs

Ever the eager pedagogue, as played with buoyant energy by Mr. Morse, Beckett annotates her performance: “Haydn based that movement of the symphony on a folk song. From Croatia.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 30, 2026

You share this archiving instinct with your sister, who meticulously annotates everything she does.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2024

Fast-forward a few years and Ding himself annotates in the book his famous sacrificial masterpiece against GM Jinshi Bai, played in a round of the Chinese Chess League in 2017.

From Washington Times ● Dec. 12, 2023

When users type a question into its subscription-based tool Assistant, the software pulls an answer from ChatGPT and automatically annotates the text with references to relevant scholarly articles, choosing from millions in its database.

From Science Magazine ● Apr. 26, 2023

Nicolas carefully annotates "Dieu," "La Divinite," &c.: so carefully indeed that one is tempted to think that he was indoctrinated by the Sufi with whom he read the Poems.

From The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam by Edward FitzGerald

Today, a student’s polished literature review or annotated bibliography alone can no longer demonstrate understanding to the professor.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

Essentials for a successful claim include geostamped, time-stamped and annotated “before, during and after” repair photos documenting damage, work performed, and completion, it adds.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 18, 2026

They occurred in the newly annotated promoter region of TPP1 and boosted production of the protein.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 1, 2026

Strawberries and white wine were on the menu, and - as has now become customary - one of the empty bottles was annotated and encased in a glass table to commemorate Sinner's latest success.

From BBC ● Jun. 22, 2026

“What’s that?” she tapped at a section that somebody had underlined or annotated.

From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston

The authors of “Inventing Eliza” excavated large portions of Eliza’s code from MIT’s archives and used it to re-create Eliza running Doctor, talmudically annotating the code throughout the book.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026

The following year, Pulte even produced a slim volume annotating some of his grandfather’s sayings and quotations.

From Salon ● Jun. 9, 2026

It recently started annotating videos from more advanced humanoid robots, helping train them to sort and fold a mix of towels and clothes, folding them and placing them in different corners of the table.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2025

In biomedicine, segmentation involves annotating pixels from an important structure in a medical image, like an organ or cell.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 11, 2024

Whether the annotating of Mr. Collier's folio be a real or a pseudo-antique, it is impossible to deny that its executor must have been a clever, as he was certainly a slashing hitter.

From Notes and Queries, Number 182, April 23, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by George Bell




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