footnote
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But in using what he could, Mr. Doherty notes, “he certainly earned more than a footnote in motion picture history by creating the first U.S.-made, feature-length anti-Nazi film.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
After resigning in May, Davies-Jones told the Commons in June that people whose lives were devastated by Epstein's abuse have too often been reduced to a footnote.
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026
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
At Harvest Conclave he had been a footnote, if that.
From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman
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When we tell ourselves stories about warrior elites—and invoke their iconography to inspire and galvanize—we often dismiss and ignore their victims as inconvenient or annoying footnotes.
From Slate ● Jul. 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
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
Securities filings are packed with repetitive legalese few will read, while the juicy bits in the footnotes require some expertise to understand.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 12, 2026
And Siobhan said that she would help with the spelling and the grammar and the footnotes.
From "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" by Mark Haddon
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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
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
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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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