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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A note at the end of an article, chapter, or book that comments on or cites a reference for a designated part of the text.

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  • noun An annotation placed at the end of a document.

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Examples

  • or to complicate their responses even further--Marianne Moore had it both ways by including the longer poem as a kind of endnote to the three-liner.

    Archive 2009-06-01 Rus Bowden 2009

  • Yet he buries the standard, lower estimates after a long discussion of statistical methods that only an expert could understand, and he relegates to an endnote the powerful international evidence against the importance of relative income that has been gathered by Justin Wolfers and Betsey Stevenson.

    Lessons From Cloud Nine Bryan Caplan 2011

  • As thought-provoking as that is, it's easy to agree with the decision to relegate it to an endnote, and for some readers, it's always been equally easy to understand why Athens would have wanted to do something similar to Socrates himself.

    "The Hemlock Cup," a history of Socrates Post 2011

  • As thought-provoking as that is, it's easy to agree with the decision to relegate it to an endnote, and for some readers, it's always been equally easy to understand why Athens would have wanted to do something similar to Socrates himself.

    "The Hemlock Cup," a history of Socrates Post 2011

  • More alarming -- not to mention revolting -- than any revelation, which has come out thus far about Bachmann, Kennedy once commented to Democratic political adviser Bobby Baker, "You know, I get a migraine headache if I don't get a strange piece of ass every day" see endnote 54.

    Lara M. Brown, Ph.D.: Michele Bachmann and Migraines: Presidential Disqualifier or Sexism? Ph.D. Lara M. Brown 2011

  • A short endnote section credits image sources and inspirations, a nice touch, especially when it came to those who influenced the look of the comics in different decades.

    Whatever Happened to the World of Tomorrow? » Comics Worth Reading 2009

  • But such provocation is a deliberate strategy: In an endnote, Ms. Ridley acknowledges that hers is "an unfamiliar version of history, one that some other scholars might wish to dispute."

    Incredible Voyage Gerard Helferich 2011

  • More alarming -- not to mention revolting -- than any revelation, which has come out thus far about Bachmann, Kennedy once commented to Democratic political adviser Bobby Baker, "You know, I get a migraine headache if I don't get a strange piece of ass every day" see endnote 54.

    Lara M. Brown, Ph.D.: Michele Bachmann and Migraines: Presidential Disqualifier or Sexism? Ph.D. Lara M. Brown 2011

  • Then I found him in an endnote, with a sort of accolade.

    What Unitarians Know (and Sam Harris Doesn't) Marilynne Robinson 2010

  • More alarming -- not to mention revolting -- than any revelation, which has come out thus far about Bachmann, Kennedy once commented to Democratic political adviser Bobby Baker, "You know, I get a migraine headache if I don't get a strange piece of ass every day" see endnote 54.

    Lara M. Brown, Ph.D.: Michele Bachmann and Migraines: Presidential Disqualifier or Sexism? Ph.D. Lara M. Brown 2011

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