How to Use annotation in a Sentence

annotation

noun
  • Without the annotations, the diagram would be hard to understand.
  • The writing’s been on the wall about annotations for some time now.
    Jon Porter, The Verge, 27 Nov. 2018
  • Here's the transcript of their call, with our annotations.
    Gregory Krieg, CNN, 24 May 2017
  • The Detroit Free Press has an hour-by-hour look at the 1967 riots, with details and annotations.
    Richard Deitsch, SI.com, 23 July 2017
  • Read her speech below and click on the yellow, highlighted text to view annotations by the Fix.
    Eugene Scott, Washington Post, 23 May 2018
  • Watch one of Avin and Schwimmer’s films, The Coworker, below, and read experts’ annotations of the script here.
    Madeleine Aggeler, The Cut, 26 Jan. 2018
  • But Eden still gets to play a major role in the finale, thanks to something June finds in her belongings: a copy of the Bible, covered in Eden’s own notes and annotations.
    Emma Dibdin, Harper's BAZAAR, 11 July 2018
  • Many of the staff were data annotation specialists, all of which are hourly positions, one of the people said.
    Edward Ludlow, Fortune, 29 June 2022
  • Billions should either come with a Hedge Fund 101 class or live annotations.
    refinery29.com, 16 Mar. 2018
  • Each part of the document, from the chart captions to the annotations, must be preserved for the A.I. technologies reviewing them to work well.
    Jonathan Vanian, Fortune, 28 Apr. 2020
  • Snip & Sketch also comes with helpful screenshot annotation and editing tools to bring the best out of your screenshots.
    Toby Grey, BGR, 24 May 2022
  • But the chapters about the Baxleys contain no such annotations.
    Special To The Washington Post, The Denver Post, 6 Apr. 2017
  • The top-level vinyl and CD editions both include a book filled with photos, essays and track-by-track annotation.
    Chris Willman, Variety, 26 Aug. 2021
  • According to one of the annotations, Ad-Rock (Adam Horovitz) had long had the idea for a video where the band dressed up as undercover cops during a stakeout.
    Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 18 June 2024
  • Handwritten annotations in the psalter reveal what the king thought of the text and its implications for his own power.
    V.m. Braganza, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Aug. 2023
  • Users will also be able to add their own annotations and data overlays.
    Brandon Keim, WIRED, 22 Aug. 2007
  • To see an annotation, click on the yellow, highlighted text.
    Aaron Blake, Washington Post, 19 Oct. 2017
  • To view an annotation, click on the yellow, highlighted text.
    Callum Borchers, Washington Post, 19 Oct. 2017
  • This year alone, the brand has been referenced nearly 100 times in rap songs indexed on the lyric-annotation platform Genius.
    Hannah Giorgis, The Atlantic, 5 Aug. 2022
  • In fact, Delphi is left-leaning in this regard because many of the crowd workers who do annotation for us are a little bit left-leaning.
    David Marchese David Marchese, New York Times, 21 Dec. 2022
  • There are tools to make highlights and annotations, and to cross out multiple-choice responses students think are wrong.
    Dana Goldstein, New York Times, 8 Mar. 2024
  • The suit claims — and a review of each song’s Genius annotation confirms — that the two compositions bear a strong resemblance.
    Gene Maddaus, Variety, 20 Jan. 2023
  • As Josh Sacks notes, the cost of this annotation far exceeds the cost of collecting the road imagery, probably by two orders of magnitude.
    Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 10 Dec. 2018
  • These annotations shed light on both the scope of the contract and Adidas’s strange indecision in responding to Rose’s troubles.
    Michael McCann, SI.com, 6 Feb. 2018
  • To see an annotation, click the yellow, highlighted text.
    Callum Borchers, Washington Post, 3 May 2017
  • Cataphiles’ maps are full of annotations, though some just keep the ever-changing information in their head.
    Ingrid Rojas Contreras, New York Times, 22 Mar. 2023
  • However, one of the links provided in the annotation of its answer brought me to a YouTube video with apparent instructions for building a pipe bomb.
    Clare Duffy, CNN, 8 Feb. 2023
  • Org Inc -- that will decide whether annotations of state government code are copyrightable.
    Eriq Gardner, Billboard, 24 June 2019
  • The sketches, which also show Diana’s annotations, will be changed every six months to show a variety of designs created for the late princess.
    Victoria Murphy, Town & Country, 19 Feb. 2019
  • Among other things, more training data with better annotations.
    Benj Edwards, Ars Technica, 24 July 2024

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