as in to interpret
to add notes or comments to (a text, book, drawing, etc.)
He annotated the text at several places. annotate a list
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These are readers and viewers who annotate, who reread, who track timelines, who have opinions about minor characters and secondary plot threads.
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Olivia Shalhoup, Forbes.com, 14 May 2026
Or at least annotate it like crazy.
—Stephanie Hope, PEOPLE, 30 Apr. 2026
Livesey, a professor emerita at the University of Oklahoma, is recognized as a significant Pauline scholar, and her book is closely argued, formidably annotated, and beautifully provocative.
—Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2026
That’s become a multibillion-dollar opportunity for startups like Micro1, which also annotate the videos so that robots can differentiate objects, distances and physical movements.
—Stephanie Yang, CNN Money, 4 Apr. 2026
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Olivia Shalhoup, Forbes.com, 14 May 2026
Or at least annotate it like crazy.
—Stephanie Hope, PEOPLE, 30 Apr. 2026
Livesey, a professor emerita at the University of Oklahoma, is recognized as a significant Pauline scholar, and her book is closely argued, formidably annotated, and beautifully provocative.
—Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2026
That’s become a multibillion-dollar opportunity for startups like Micro1, which also annotate the videos so that robots can differentiate objects, distances and physical movements.
—Stephanie Yang, CNN Money, 4 Apr. 2026
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In an email to ARTnews, Art Basel CEO Noah Horowitz cautioned against interpreting shrinking sales in the ultra-contemporary category as a sign that collectors have lost interest.—
Devorah Lauter,
ARTnews.com,
15 June 2026
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After receiving a master’s in engineering at Cornell and doing a stint training AI to interpret and understand the visual world, Nguyen enrolled in a Stanford bioengineering PhD program specifically to find a problem worth fighting for.—
Lily Mae Lazarus,
Fortune,
15 June 2026
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There are at least 4,349 data centers in operation nationwide, according to Data Center Map, a research group that analyzes the issue.—
Skyler Henry,
CBS News,
12 June 2026
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This article was generated by the Bay Area Home Report Bot, software that analyzes home sales or other data and creates an article based on a template created by humans.—
Bay Area Home Report,
Mercury News,
11 June 2026
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This line, Cook had tried to explain to the islanders, was a boundary they were not allowed to cross.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
11 June 2026
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Tim Allen, who stars with the actress on Shifting Gears, explained how her new job will affect her time on the ABC sitcom's third season.—
Wesley Stenzel,
Entertainment Weekly,
11 June 2026
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Woods illustrates Sylvia’s sorrow through flashbacks to her daughter, Nadia (Olivia Edward as a teenager, Emma Farnell-Watson as an adult), who was a ballet dancer.—
Natalia Winkelman,
Variety,
16 June 2026
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Govia said the attack seems to illustrate an underlying issue in society right now.—
Jesse Zanger,
CBS News,
16 June 2026
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This story was updated on June 12 to add more details on Ukraine’s current policy against using such fully autonomous drones, and to clarify that Kokhanovskyy’s company Aero Center was not involved in the one-time battlefield test of the technology.—
Jeremy Hsu,
ArsTechnica,
12 June 2026
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Meetings multiply because no one has clarified the scope or the score.—
Gerald J. Leonard,
Forbes.com,
12 June 2026
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“Annotate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/annotate. Accessed 19 Jun. 2026.
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