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Lyalin, for his part, faded into obscurity—a footnote now waiting, perhaps, for a riveting movie to be made about him three decades after his death.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026

Four minutes later, Cameron Hanekom scooped up scrappy ball to put the result beyond doubt and render replacement Beauden Barrett's late try only a footnote.

From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026

“The Court has doubts that caselaw supports the construction of ‘fugitive’ that Texas is considering,” he wrote in a footnote.

From Slate ● Aug. 28, 2026

One final footnote: If a beneficiary is a minor, the bank generally won’t hand the money over outright.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 26, 2026

Nor with the media, who needed sensation and since no deaths had occurred would give it only passing mention, like a footnote in a thousand-page book.

From "Bodega Dreams" by Ernesto Quinonez

Turkle was finishing the footnotes for her upcoming book, “Artificial Intimacy: Who We Become When We Talk to Machines.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 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

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

By the time the SEC had plowed through everything, its rule ran to 300,000 words—that’s the equivalent of “Moby-Dick” plus “The Sun Also Rises”—with well over 3,000 footnotes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 4, 2026

A small academic brouhaha ensued, complete with hundreds of footnotes.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

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

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

Constant footnoting is exhausting — a drag on the festivities and also on the drama.

From New York Times ● Jun. 10, 2022

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