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How to use the word footnote in a Sentence?

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That can’t be a footnote; it can’t be an afterthought, i’m speaking specifically, directly to both GOP and Democratic politicians: Be mindful of the words that you use. Because the words you use can have real world impacts on the bodies of Asian American people on the streets.

Charles Jung

Found on CNN
1 year ago

To see that memorial now honoring what those 40 did — it’s just very gratifying and we’re just a footnote in the story.

Tim Lambert

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We never want the history of the Holocaust to be a footnote in the history books, we need to talk about the Holocaust, we need to teach about the Holocaust because it is the most effective way to combat anti-Semitism and racism in all its forms ... and it’s never been as important as it is today.

Michele Gold

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

The Postal Service has long promised that' [ n ] either snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds, the Court rightly added the obvious footnote : fixing an election and cost-cutting can not cut it as an exception to that promise.

Remy Green

Found on CNN
3 years ago

This has become yet another footnote in the story of coronavirus and its impact on America, but NASA is continuing to press ahead with Commercial Crew because there is a profound obligation to keep The ISS operational.

Dale Ketcham

Found on CNN
3 years ago

A footnote saying something may be political is a far cry from letting the American people know that the Democrats and the Hillary (Clinton) campaign paid for dirt that the FBI then used to get a warrant on an American citizen to spy on another campaign.

Christopher Steele

Found on CNN
6 years ago

The president seeks judges who understand that justice is not about some abstract legal theory, or a footnote in a casebook, but it is also about how our laws affect the daily realities of peoples’ lives.

White House spokesman Eric Schultz

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It didn't seem like he had reached the apogee of his career, i don't know if it'll be relegated to a footnote, but maybe only one chapter in a lengthy book of accomplishments.

John Duffield

Found on CNN
8 years ago

All thought is naught but a footnote to Plato.

George Santiano

added by anonymous
13 years ago

A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else can be only a footnote.

Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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