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Footnote meaning
A short piece of text, often numbered, placed at the bottom of a printed page, that adds a comment, citation, reference etc, to a designated part of the main text. | An event of lesser importance than some larger event to which it is related. | A qualification to the import of something.
Example sentences (20)
A footnote even suggested that the Warhol Foundation might find itself back on the wrong side of fair use if it licensed the soup cans to a company selling soup.
A footnote in U.S. Bancorp’s annual report misstated the value of its loans by $50.6 billion, making it appear as though the bank’s loans had increased in value since they were originated, when their value had actually declined by billions.
And here’s a little footnote you’re not supposed to cite.
As a footnote, industry leaders do warn that the tenuous situation in the Middle East could lead to economic stress and could play a role in whether these trends hold true.
As if Harry’s and Meghan’s tattling would not create a backlash, this week we have Harry offering a footnote for the public to chew on.
Footnote: Since there is already a Gold St. over there near Montgomery and Jackson, it appears that novelist Herb Gold has it made, dead or alive.
He called the decision “a move in the wrong direction,” and cited a footnote in the majority opinion that he said means the decision doesn’t apply to military academies.
His footnote about that was more than half a page long, quoting a devotional he gave at the 2017 Mission Presidents Seminar.
It only made the tiniest of ripples in the sports pages – little more than a footnote in most places – but for me it was one of the worst bits of news for the English national team in a long time.
So on the net loss mentioned in the K and footnote 3, that is predominantly -- and Randy referenced it earlier, the Ward facility, a sizable facility.
The alternative would be the Gladiators joining Wolverhampton and Peterborough, who have already said that they will not be riding in 2024, and become another footnote of the past with nostalgic memories - just like the Exeter Falcons sadly have become.
The Clarks’ research would be cited in footnote 11 of the Supreme Court ruling in Brown v. Board of Education as an example of the harms that segregation inflicted on the “hearts and minds” of Black children.
The show at the venue often referred to as the Mucky Duck (it became the Boardwalk in the 1990s) could just have easily become a footnote in the annals of Sheffield’s music history.
They were members of an armed Christian sect, unfamiliar and isolated, and for many Americans, Waco was another footnote in the country’s long history of violence.
Ackman said his wife admitted to four missing quotation marks and one missed footnote in a 330-page dissertation.
A footnote: this guy is now married to one of my mom's very domineering relatives.
And had the current Trust Council chosen to merely discuss the Trust’s object out of the public eye at a September 2023 meeting, and without such external agencies represented, it would have been perhaps just an unfortunate footnote.
Country music’s 1970s power couple short-lived marriage was an infamously tumultuous footnote to their iconic careers, which they shared even after divorcing for the second time in 1975.
For some, the modest but pointed footnote seemed to be a forewarning.
Here there is no footnote, and frankly nor should there be because not every story needs to be about everything.