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Append is a somewhat formal word. Lawyers, for example, often speak of appending items to other documents, and lawmakers frequently append small bills to big ones, hoping that everyone will be paying attention only to the main part of the big bill and won't notice. When we append a small separate section to the end of a report or a book, we call it an appendix. But in the early years of email, the words we decided on were attach and attachment, probably because appendixes are thought of as unimportant, whereas the attachment is often the whole reason for sending an email.
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Stuart A. Thompson, New York Times, 8 Jan. 2025
American men married to women are five times more likely to fully adopt their wife’s surname than to append it to their own with a hyphen.
—The Atlantic Science Desk, The Atlantic, 28 Dec. 2024
But users with differing political viewpoints have to agree on a fact-check before it is publicly appended to a post, which means that misleading posts about politically divisive subjects often go unchecked.
—Kate Conger, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2025
People will take it to the streets, or there will be people who would want to append a system in some way.
—Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 28 Dec. 2024
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“Append.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/append. Accessed 22 Jan. 2025.
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