asterisking

Isn't English a wonderful language when we can just make up perfectly understandable and acceptable verbs like "asterisking" and "google"?

Will It Work? Who The H*** Knows? 2006

Unless we want to start "asterisking" the Bill of Rights and The Constitution.

unknown title 2009

Someone may already have made this point, but … While asterisking the list is a dumb idea, a “structural advantage for hitters” is not the same thing as a “high-risk, high-reward strategy for hitting lots of home runs.”

Matthew Yglesias » PEDs 2010

Though asterisking the entrant due to not being pork, we unilaterally liked the flavor of the Ma Peche chicken banh mi, which rated second in the * pork* category, second only to Baoguette.

Baoguette Wins Lunch’er Organized “Banh-Mi-Palooza” | Midtown Lunch - Finding Lunch in the Food Wasteland of NYC's Midtown Manhattan 2010

Baseball seemingly had morphed into a 'steroid era' where a steroid-using Canseco openly called for the use of PEDs to enhance the game, and where experts questioned if baseball's most venerated records needed asterisking.

Gary R. Gaffney: Mitchell Report: Paradigm Shift in MLB Culture? 2008

See also the many Language Log postings on automated asterisking.)

Language Log 2009