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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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  • That honour instead went to Wigan’s Harrison Rimmer, who held up six fingers after scoring, an apparent reference to rivals Liverpool’s European Cup wins, although 16-year-old Ray Roberts converted a late penalty to become the first Everton scorer at the new stadium.
    Patrick Boyland, The Athletic, 18 Feb. 2025
  • Assessing all the information the movie gives us again, a conspicuous absence is any reference to the autistic spectrum.
    David Katz, IndieWire, 18 Feb. 2025
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  • 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
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  • 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
  • Leaders of private practices can share their experiences with each other—the owner of, say, a psychiatry practice can meet with the owner of a counseling practice in the same city to trade notes on their experiences using AI at work.
    Pritma Dhillon-Chattha, Forbes, 21 Feb. 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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  • 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
  • Cease, who avoided arbitration and signed a one-year contract worth $13.75 million, is an upcoming free agent at the end of the season and has been a constant source of trade rumors.
    Barry M. Bloom, Sportico.com, 21 Feb. 2025

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“Footnote.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/footnote. Accessed 4 Mar. 2025.

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