foot·note
ˈfu̇t-ˌnōt 
1
: a note of reference, explanation, or comment usually placed below the text on a printed page
2
a
: one that is a relatively subordinate or minor part (as of an event, work, or field)
a movement now regarded as a footnote to architectural history
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Noun
a movement now regarded as a footnote to history
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Troy Finnegan, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 May 2025
Goalie Sergei Bobrovsky was a footnote by the end, but his first-period saves highlighted by a breakaway stop of Stephen Lorentz kept the night from tilting Toronto’s way.
—Dave Hyde, Sun Sentinel, 19 May 2025
Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, Forbes.com, 29 May 2025
Rigorously footnoted, informed by interviews with fellow company members as well as industry figures, the book is shaped by Almond’s own memories as a cast member making his Broadway debut.
—Laura Collins-Hughes, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2025
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Noun
Instead, his early charge on Sunday is merely a footnote in another tale of Scheffler's triumph.
—Troy Finnegan, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 May 2025
Goalie Sergei Bobrovsky was a footnote by the end, but his first-period saves highlighted by a breakaway stop of Stephen Lorentz kept the night from tilting Toronto’s way.
—Dave Hyde, Sun Sentinel, 19 May 2025
Verb
Meaning was no longer handed down from the heavens; it was drafted, debated, and footnoted by men in powdered wigs.
—Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, Forbes.com, 29 May 2025
Rigorously footnoted, informed by interviews with fellow company members as well as industry figures, the book is shaped by Almond’s own memories as a cast member making his Broadway debut.
—Laura Collins-Hughes, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2025
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“Footnote.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/footnote. Accessed 1 Jun. 2025.
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