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Discover Ludwig"marginal note" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It refers to a brief note or remark written in the margin of a page, usually to provide additional information or clarify something in the main text. Example: The student made a marginal note next to the paragraph about the invasion of Normandy, reminding herself to research more about this significant event in World War II for her history paper.
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The editors there sent the text along to an Oxford don, who objected to Alyosha Karamazov being called an "angel"; in the margin he wrote instead "good chap"; another marginal note said, simply, "balls".
His marginal note says the deleted material was "straying from research strategy into speculative findings/musings".
The marginal note is to be found in an edition of Cicero's letters, dated 1477.
Another reader had come to Folk's defense in a marginal note.
To which I responded with my most plentiful marginal note: "not a geek".
By Wolcott Gibbs The New Yorker, June 24 , 1939P. 11 Marginal note found in a book left behind by a friend for the summer.
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I especially like the marginal notes called Moneysavers, Timesavers and, sometimes, just a cautionary "Watch out".
I'm not hunched over a copy of Heiddeger making marginal notes.
My tool kit of marginal notes is simple: "!," "?," "*," "funny," and for hard jobs, "echh".
I very much need to underline and make marginal notes whatever I'm reading.
I sympathize with the recent wave of public teeth-gnashing about the future of marginal notes.
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Since I tried Ludwig back in 2017, I have been constantly using it in both editing and translation. Ever since, I suggest it to my translators at ProSciEditing.

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