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Recent Examples of footnote Crichton later revealed that he had been inspired by a biology-textbook footnote about the possibility of organisms in the Earth’s upper atmosphere. Cal Newport, The New Yorker, 29 Jan. 2025 The fact that this is not at least a footnote in every single article on city casts a long shadow over the integrity of The Athletic. Sam Lee, The Athletic, 24 Jan. 2025 Getting back to those two municipalities for a moment, here’s an interesting footnote. Eli Amdur, Forbes, 23 Jan. 2025 The series is garnished with all manner of footnotes and references, about half of them to some obscure bit of Russian folklore, Christian apocrypha or Poe poem, and the rest to works of Mignola’s own invention. Sam Thielman, New York Times, 20 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for footnote
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Noun
  • Gogol himself does not give a reference to where the play happens.
    Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 2 Mar. 2025
  • The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) ruled that when the price of a good or service is agreed upon without any reference to VAT, the agreed price is considered VAT-inclusive.
    Aleksandra Bal, Forbes, 2 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Contest organizers were once again kind enough to share with us a selection of this year’s honorees, with captions written by the photographers.
    Alan Taylor, The Atlantic, 25 Feb. 2025
  • Below the caption was a link to a moveon.org petition.
    Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY, 25 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Compounders have 60 to 90 days to stop sales For Hims and other compounders, this development starts the clock on having unfettered market access to Novo's drugs, Leerink Partners analyst Michael Cherny said in a note.
    Bhanvi Satija, Puyaan Singh, USA TODAY, 22 Feb. 2025
  • But notes on the page of a score are just a starting point.
    Joshua Barone, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Complementing these features, the triangulation reports cross-reference medical records with billing statements to identify any missing or overlooked records or expenses to assure that every record and bill is accounted for.
    Ethan Stone, USA TODAY, 27 Feb. 2025
  • The researchers designed an algorithm that could recognize medical terminology in LLM output, and cross-reference phrases to a validated biomedical knowledge graph.
    John Timmer, Ars Technica, 8 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Our fact-check sources Matt Reagan, Feb. 20, Phone interview with USA TODAY Thank you for supporting our journalism.
    Kate S. Petersen, USA TODAY, 22 Feb. 2025
  • That’s not to make mention of the Boston Red Sox, who completed their offseason with a three-year, $120 million agreement with Alex Bregman, a league source confirmed to The Athletic’s Chandler Rome on Wednesday.
    Tim Britton, The Athletic, 21 Feb. 2025

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