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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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Recent Examples of annotates
Pretending to be the smart person who annotates their books can lead to becoming that person.
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Brianne Kane, Scientific American, 19 Sep. 2025
Brianne Kane, Scientific American, 19 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for annotates
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This accumulation of unmade decisions creates anxiety, decision fatigue, and mental paralysis, as the brain interprets uncertainty as a threat.—
Bryan Robinson,
Forbes.com,
18 June 2026
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Although no policy changes are expected this week, investors are looking for whether Warsh will signal changes in how the Fed communicates its economic views or interprets inflation data.—
Aimee Picchi,
CBS News,
16 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,
13 June 2026
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The second layer receives data from all suckers, analyzes the object's position over a window of roughly four seconds, and decides the global gripping strategy – whether to curl the tentacle up, down, or rotate it – overriding local decisions if needed.—
Omar Kardoudi
June 13,
New Atlas,
13 June 2026
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The combination probably explains the excessive growth, turning the water surface an opaque green and preventing onlookers from seeing the new blue hue of the concrete basin.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
20 June 2026
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Leus explains that the INXS tune was important to the filmmakers and encapsulated the relationship between Jo and Raissa.—
Jazz Tangcay,
Variety,
19 June 2026
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Radio traffic from early Tuesday evening illustrates how close together a string of shootings occurred along Kansas City highways that left four injured and one dead.—
Judy L. Thomas,
Kansas City Star,
18 June 2026
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According to Skic, the exhibit illustrates how the Declaration's influence extended far beyond the Revolutionary era and became part of the argument for expanding civil rights to more Americans.—
Josh Sanders,
CBS News,
18 June 2026
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“Annotates.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/annotates. Accessed 20 Jun. 2026.
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