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Append is a somewhat formal word. Lawyers, for example, often speak of appending items to other documents, and lawmakers frequently append small bills to big ones, hoping that everyone will be paying attention only to the main part of the big bill and won't notice. When we append a small separate section to the end of a report or a book, we call it an appendix. But in the early years of email, the words we decided on were attach and attachment, probably because appendixes are thought of as unimportant, whereas the attachment is often the whole reason for sending an email.
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Anil Ananthaswamy, Quanta Magazine, 14 Apr. 2025
Several companies can append 3rd party prospect data into your ecosystem.
—Agastya Kumar Komarraju, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2024
Loading your audio article A correction to an earlier version of this article has been appended to the end of the article.
—Rick Hurd, Mercury News, 28 Mar. 2025
Previous exchanges with the generative AI during a conversation are appended to the current exchange.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes, 1 Jan. 2025
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“Append.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/append. Accessed 20 May. 2025.
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