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Recent Examples of footnote But the timing of it was only disclosed Saturday, in a brief footnote of a DOJ court filing to U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon of Florida, who was appointed to the bench by Trump. Pia Singh, CNBC, 11 Jan. 2025 But aviation history, and the personal motivations of the people who shaped it, with all the insights and recriminations — still hasn’t agreed on a place for Montgomery, the subject of some books and a footnote in others. Jake Goodrick, Sacramento Bee, 6 Jan. 2025 It is supplemented with footnotes by Yáng, as well as notes by Chizuko and various (fictional) scholars. Talya Zax, The Atlantic, 24 Nov. 2024 The winger was only a footnote for Germany at the European Championships last summer and also struggled at the start of the season. Manuel Veth, Forbes, 29 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for footnote 
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  • For reference, commercial airplanes are allowed to have 1,000 feet of stack between them when flying below 29,000 feet, and must have 2,000 feet of stack between them when above 29,000 feet.
    Kristin Jenny, Outside Online, 13 Jan. 2025
  • The main text is organized alphabetically with an appendix in back offering references by creature type and Challenge Rating.
    Rob Wieland, Forbes, 13 Jan. 2025
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  • While translations require an internet connection, the glasses can generate captions even when your phone is offline.
    Will Greenwald, PCMAG, 8 Jan. 2025
  • Kotb let the photo speak for itself, not writing out a caption.
    Tommy Tuberville, Newsweek, 8 Jan. 2025
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  • Volunteers can help with everything from pension records, field notes made by geographers working on the Mason-Dixon line, to immigration and Census records.
    Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 17 Jan. 2025
  • The signature tea is The Shard Blend, a delicate white tea blend with floral notes designed to complement the high-altitude setting.
    Joseph V Micallef, Forbes, 16 Jan. 2025
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  • 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
  • Applied to immigration, AI can process and cross-reference information in real-time, identifying red flags or connections to criminal networks that human analysts might miss.
    Kevin Cohen, New York Daily News, 31 Dec. 2024
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  • Filming began in May 1972 and took several years to complete, largely because of funding issues (the money came from a variety of sources, including grants, loans from Lynch’s father and friends, including Sissy Spacek, and even Lynch’s own paper route).
    Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 16 Jan. 2025
  • The city relies extensively on the approval of state loans and other sources of funding that are under the governor’s purview.
    Alexandra Berzon, New York Times, 16 Jan. 2025

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