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Definition of "footnotes" []

  • Plural form of footnote. (noun)
  • Third-person singular simple present indicative form of footnote. (verb)

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Use "footnotes" in a sentence
  • "(The Bell Curve also mentions the correlation; the source listed for it in the footnotes is a College Board publication that contains many statistics, but not that one.)"
  • "Some days ago, I got a piece of what someone like Harry Wilson would call campaign literature — a 53-page analysis of the public pension crisis in New York and the U.S., with footnotes from the National Bureau of Economic Research and such."
  • "Given that the hearing was called with little notice, and little time to prepare a formal written statement, I have opted to add some annotations and expansion of my views in footnotes to this SSRN version that did not appear in the original version submitted to the subcommittee; other witnesses were also operating under time pressure and so statements are not necessarily formal in an academic sense."
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