marginalia

Example Sentences

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At first it appears messy, improvised and oblique — the sculptural equivalent of marginalia.

From Washington Post • Apr. 14, 2023

I created a tiny app for tracking my studies and adding marginalia to digitally scanned quotes.

From The Verge • Mar. 4, 2022

As Bromley’s marginalia shows, the attack on his Remarks had left Tories smarting and presented a new model for satirically attacking the publications of one’s political enemies.

From Slate • Feb. 21, 2022

My marginalia became a series of handholds on the placid smoothness of the page.

From New York Times • Nov. 2, 2021

But these marginalia contradicted the text, because the ivy was silently eating away at the mortar between the stones and would one day bring the walls down.

From "The Inquisitor's Tale" by Adam Gidwitz