ANNOTATE Synonyms: 37 Similar and Opposite Words

annotate

verb

Definition of annotate

as in to interpret

to add notes or comments to (a text, book, drawing, etc.) He annotated the text at several places. annotate a list

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Recent Examples of annotate My team has had projects with perfectly annotated and stabilized data that was so limited that their model couldn’t perform accurately at scale. — Klaudia Zaika, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2026 The two identical charts annotate the setup in different ways. — Carter Braxton Worth, CNBC, 26 June 2026 The set includes 25 hours of interviews, documentaries, and behind-the-scenes materials; deluxe packaging with rare photographs and new illustrations, plus artwork and documents annotated by Kubrick himself. — Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 22 June 2026 In one Zooniverse project related to the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, volunteers will visually inspect and annotate 2D slitless spectroscopic images from the telescope to observe the redshift of millions of galaxies — the main method used for measuring the expansion of the universe. — Adam Harrington, CBS News, 21 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for annotate

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Here, the feature is designed to acquire and interpret the substance of a conversation — and the user has deliberately opted in.

— MacKenzie Sigalos,Annie Palmer, CNBC, 18 Oct. 2026
Part of its purpose, from the beginning, was not only to deliver new facts but to interpret ragged events for a nervous audience of relatively prosperous, largely white viewers who shared Wallace’s concern about the shape and tenor of the future.

— Vinson Cunningham, New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2026

Definition of interpret

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To profile their activity in patients with SCLC, the researchers analyzed tumor samples and non-affected biopsies from a dozen patients using single-cell RNA sequencing and immunophenotyping.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 15 Oct. 2026
Last month, the Economist used Pangram to analyze parliamentary speeches, finding that 10% of the words spoken in the British Parliament were drafted with AI.

— Gene Maddaus, Variety, 14 Oct. 2026

Definition of analyze

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An elephantine star becoming a black hole doesn’t explain it either.

— Robin George Andrews, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2026
Maybe this explains why Effective Altruism—the idea that generosity should be subjected to evidence and calculation—seemed counterintuitive.

— David Miliband, Time, 19 Oct. 2026

Definition of explain

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Its flight heritage illustrates the importance of dependable computing hardware in missions where repairs are difficult or impossible.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 15 Oct. 2026
The incident illustrates the failures of trust and safety provisions that are supposed to protect against this kind of confusion.

— Mia Sato, The Verge, 15 Oct. 2026

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