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nota bene

American  
[noh-tah be-ne, noh-tuh bey-nee, ben-ee, bee-nee] / ˈnoʊ tɑ ˈbɛ nɛ, ˈnoʊ tə ˈbeɪ ni, ˈbɛn i, ˈbi ni /
Latin.
  1. note well; take notice.


nota bene British  
/ ˈnəʊtə ˈbiːnɪ /
  1. Abbreviation: NB.   N.B..   nb.   n.b..  note well; take note

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But nota bene: when Joel says “the same manic energy,” he is paying back much of the vividness he borrowed.

From The New Yorker Mar. 2, 2015

It's the mad bull and the china shop, and, nota bene, we are the china shop.

From The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume II by Sir Frederic G. (Frederic George) Kenyon

She made a list of her trinkets, with a nota bene stating her appropriation of the two rings, and laid it at the top of her principal jewel-case.

From The Lovels of Arden by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

The soirée was 'full of rubbish' in the way of its social composition, which George Sand likes, nota bene.

From The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2) by Sir Frederic G. (Frederic George) Kenyon

The perception of the fundamental contradiction in German idealism led necessarily back to materialism, but nota bene, not to the simply metaphysical, exclusively mechanical materialism of the eighteenth century.

From Socialism: Utopian and Scientific by Friedrich Engels

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