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Discover LudwigThe phrase "solid footnote" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a footnote that is well-researched, reliable, or provides strong support for a statement or argument in a text. Example: "The author included a solid footnote that referenced multiple credible sources, enhancing the validity of the claim made in the main text."
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This explains a method that looks very curious at first -- a self-serving memoir, Wainewright's supposed confession, broken every few pages by a solid batch of footnotes.
"To the inexpert, footnotes look like deep root systems, solid and fixed," the Princeton scholar Anthony Grafton writes in "The Footnote: A Curious History," his clever, and heavily noted, study of the form.
The lack of protest, combined with Woodward's reputation, inclines me to trust his account as solid until something else comes along that says different with footnotes.
— It's hard not to think of the current Glimmerglass Opera season as something of a footnote, though that is patently unfair to the artists doing consistently solid and frequently inspired work here this summer.
The late work has been solid, composed to a high level of craftsmanship; but the poems are like footnotes to poems already written, with all of his mastery but little of his passion and less of his subdued outrage.
Footnote The Grammy Award winner Les Paul, a member of the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame who invented the solid body electric guitar in 1946, was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in ceremonies on Saturday in Akron, Ohio, The Associated Press reported.
"As with most Computer Associate quarterly results, those of its fiscal second quarter was somewhat confusing, but we view the results as solid where it matters most (cash flow and billings), though even those items have some footnotes," said DiFucci.
More ominously, there is nothing here in the way of an index or footnotes, none of the usual evidence of deep research that gives a biography the solid stamp of authority.
A footnote.
Footnote over.
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