notations

plural of notation
as in notes
a usually brief written reminder he had scribbled his notation so quickly I couldn't read it

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Recent Examples of notations The Pulse can perform much more intricate compositions than, say, a pair of industrial robot arms, and can work directly off of digital notations without the need for custom programming. Abhimanyu Ghoshal, New Atlas, 9 Aug. 2026 Bearing extensive handwritten notations and edits by the authors, it is estimated to sell for between $1 and $2 million. Brian Boucher, ARTnews.com, 17 June 2026 Do notations always converge like this on something dominant? John Pavlus, Quanta Magazine, 25 Mar. 2026 Some plaintiffs are also asking that all disciplinary notations from their academic files be removed. Mirna Alsharif, NBC news, 10 Feb. 2026 In their new poetry collections, Peter Balakian’s elliptical notations let his images speak for themselves while Angie Estes’s concentration reveals a rapturous virtuosity. Ange Mlinko, The New York Review of Books, 2 Oct. 2025
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notes
Noun
  • None of this establishes what share of enterprise production runs on community artifacts, and Hugging Face says as much in its notes on method.
    Janakiram MSV, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2026
  • But concerns about the technology, including the generation of inaccurate notes with errors or hallucinations, made physicians resistant to learn and adopt it into their workflows.
    Harvard Business Review, Harvard Business Review, 18 Aug. 2026

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“Notations.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/notations. Accessed 21 Aug. 2026.

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