as in note
a usually brief written reminder he had scribbled his notation so quickly I couldn't read it

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Recent Examples of notation Much of Heaney’s work had relaxed into notations rather than culminations of experience. Christian Wiman, Harper's Magazine, 2 Aug. 2024 Now nearly a million followers tune in for his notations. March 12, 2024By Tristan Geary David French Israel Is Making the Same Mistake America Made in Iraq The Israel Defense Forces’ military challenge is inseparable from its humanitarian obligations. Peter Baker Milana Mazaeva Tristan Geary David French, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2024 Those boxes contain, among other things, dozens of photographs of people’s faces, some of them marked up with strange mathematical notations—as if their human subjects were afflicted with some kind of geometrical skin disease. Shaun Raviv, WIRED, 21 Jan. 2020 Memories are shaky and some notations in public records are disputed by her family. Anagilmara Vílchez, NBC News, 19 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for notation 

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“Notation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/notation. Accessed 29 Jan. 2025.

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