annotate
verb
an·no·tate
ˈa-nə-ˌtāt 
annotated; annotating
: to make or furnish critical or explanatory notes or comment
: to make or furnish annotations (see annotation sense 1) for (something, such as a literary work or subject)
annotated his translation of Dante's Divine Comedy
Examples of annotate in a Sentence
He annotated the text at several places.
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All this is typically made possible with the help of underpaid workers in the Global South to annotate that data at a mammoth scale.
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Adam Clair, Vox, 1 July 2024
One pipe is annotated as the one that carries in carbon dioxide from nearby refineries.
—Emily Wright, Washington Post, 27 June 2024
Sharma’s team sourced a record of codas from the dataset of the Dominica Sperm Whale Project, a long-term study on sperm whales that recorded and annotated 8,719 individual codas made by EC-1, a sperm whale clan living in East Caribbean waters.
—Jacek Krywko, Ars Technica, 22 May 2024
Reagan extensively edited and annotated the speech draft with more than 770 words in his own hand, signing it with his initials in one of the margins.
—Pamela McLoughlin, Hartford Courant, 7 Feb. 2024
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Adam Clair, Vox, 1 July 2024
One pipe is annotated as the one that carries in carbon dioxide from nearby refineries.
—Emily Wright, Washington Post, 27 June 2024
Sharma’s team sourced a record of codas from the dataset of the Dominica Sperm Whale Project, a long-term study on sperm whales that recorded and annotated 8,719 individual codas made by EC-1, a sperm whale clan living in East Caribbean waters.
—Jacek Krywko, Ars Technica, 22 May 2024
Reagan extensively edited and annotated the speech draft with more than 770 words in his own hand, signing it with his initials in one of the margins.
—Pamela McLoughlin, Hartford Courant, 7 Feb. 2024
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annotate
verb
an·no·tate
ˈa-nə-ˌtāt
annotated; annotating
: to make or write an annotation
: to make or write annotations for
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