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

It was hard to imagine any other teacher spending all that time jotting personalized marginalia.

From Slate • Apr. 29, 2021

Each an epic, the episodes contain so much data and dredged-up Nashville marginalia that you are left equal parts dumbfounded and enriched.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 22, 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