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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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Andrea Rosa, Los Angeles Times, 18 May 2026
Two earlier copies contain the poem in Old English, but as afterthoughts — translated from Latin and scrawled into the margin or appended but not within the text's main body, according to the researchers.
—CBS News, 17 May 2026
Here, research has revealed, for example, how audience and journalistic frames interact and compete in liveblogs, where in a space of potential co-production, journalists still reframe amateur contributions by appending their own frames onto them.
—Daniel Jackson, Encyclopedia Britannica, 27 Apr. 2026
At 30, ideally Miami could trade back to a team motivated to pick a QB in the first round (with that affordable fifth-year option that is appended to players picked in the first 32).
—Kenny Rosarion, Sun Sentinel, 20 Apr. 2026
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“Append.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/append. Accessed 15 Jun. 2026.
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