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The phrase "quick footnote" is correct and usable in written English
It can be used when you want to add a brief additional comment or reference that is not central to the main text.
Example: "In the previous chapter, we discussed the implications of climate change on agriculture (quick footnote: see Appendix B for detailed statistics)."
Alternatives: "brief note" or "short annotation"
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Or else it's speeded up into squeaky cartoon speak: "Quick footnote about my mom.
(A quick footnote: Thanks to Roland Paris and Centre for International Policy Studies at the University of Ottawa for sponsoring the lecture from which this Comment is adapted).
A quick footnote: the owners and trainers have earned full marks for sticking with rookie professional jockey Nico de Boinville when some higher profile names surely galloped across their radars.
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Footnotes are used to land quick, precise jabs.
They're enthusiastic about the low cost of electronic delivery, the ease of researching hyperlinked footnotes, and the potential for quick feedback from readers.
I've been surprised to find myself listed as a co-author on a draft social science paper when all I did was send quick comments that would barely have merited an acknowledgment in a footnote in a philosophy paper.
With almost 100 pages of maps, notes, timelines and footnotes, "The Opium War" moves along with a quick pace and simple language.
In asides and footnotes, unexpected names like those of Karl Rove and Antonin Scalia take a quick turn on the stage, smelling of sulfur.
To Whitewater they will point out the impenetrable complexities of real estate speculation, then drop a footnote describing the quest of some of the Founding Fathers for a quick profit in the Western lands.
His conversation is quick, emphatic, torrential -- it comes in complete paragraphs, which themselves come complete with footnotes, jokes and marginalia.
A quick two-goal lead pushed that problem to the background, and the victory turned the Lindros situation into a footnote, at least for a night.
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