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footnote

[foot-noht] / ˈfʊtˌnoʊt /
NOUN
note at bottom of document
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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

"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

In a small-type footnote that comprises “References and Notes,” Socolow and Pacala list BP and Ford as sponsors of the Carbon Mitigation Initiative and thank Mottershead as a BP employee, along with several other scientists.

From Salon Jun. 26, 2026

But that denouement is but a footnote to their much more significant collaboration in the years of the American crisis.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 12, 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

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

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

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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