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annotate

[an-uh-tayt] / ˈæn əˌteɪt /


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NA: Annie first asked if she could annotate what I had written.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 19, 2026

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

However, scientists are identifying viral sequences in DNA collected from the environment at a rate that far outpaces our ability to annotate those genes.

From Salon ● May 17, 2024

He settled in with my dad to annotate maps with new information: construction sites, the burnt-out school...

From "The Marrow Thieves" by Cherie Dimaline

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

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

The artist Wendy Red Star annotates historical photos of Crow diplomats, restoring significance to feathers and hair bows that contemporaneous white Americans belittled and misunderstood.

From New York Times ● Aug. 3, 2022

"You must never go without Jane," annotates Cecil; "must she, papa?"

From Floyd Grandon's Honor by Amanda Minnie Douglas

On the annotated map, each red dot represents a "fire detection."

From Science Daily ● Sep. 6, 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

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

Alongside the guitar is a copy of the Declaration of Independence, annotated by John McKesson, secretary of New York’s Fourth Provincial Congress, in the days following July 4, 1776.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 10, 2026

By evening I move on to rereading the annotated and illustrated version of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.

From "Everything, Everything" by Nicola Yoon

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

Indicating the origin of an inset from an image is minimal; providing intensity scales for grayscale, color, and pseudocolor is recommended; and annotating image details such as pixel size and exposure time are ideal.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 26, 2023

On the table at which she was sitting was a packet of typewritten sheets which she had been annotating, and two fat note books.

From Ruth Fielding Down East Or, The Hermit of Beach Plum Point by Alice B. Emerson


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