marginalia

Example Sentences

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It would be five more years before “In Search” was published in full and decades before an authoritative text was established from the morass of his marginalia.

From Washington Post • Nov. 17, 2022

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

The vines were beautiful, deep green against the glowing sun-kissed stone, like the illuminated marginalia in a manuscript.

From "The Inquisitor's Tale" by Adam Gidwitz