Asterisk in a sentence as a noun

It's now putting an asterisk on all the old rules.

I think I've spotted the problem: you have an asterisk instead of an IP address. :|

Off topic, but can we please stop pretending that an asterisk means you didn't just say "*******"?

The giant asterisk with B2D is that you probably need a service component.

If Barry Bonds deserves an asterisk beside his name in the record books then surely so does Bertie.

Id instead expect hed want to win the prize based upon the performance of the company and beat the rest without an asterisk next to the record.

Asterisk in a sentence as a verb

If there were an asterisk attached that said, "...but only if people agree in retrospect that you deserve the money," nobody would accept them as payment.

I also don't think Reddit has fixed it yet.- Using one asterisk OR one underscore for and two asterisks OR two underscores for feels redundant.

* The inevitable asterisk: It seems that it might be possible to keep things from going awry if there is a specific warrant signed by a judge for every _individual_ act of "listening in".

I've previously shared your opinion on this issue as well, but the first answer to this StackOverflow question shows one good reason why one should opt for having the asterisk touching the variable.

They put stupid asterisks all over my beautiful plots and then think their arbitrary cutoffs mean something biologically meaningful.

Asterisk definitions

noun

a star-shaped character * used in printing

See also: star

verb

mark with an asterisk; "Linguists star unacceptable sentences"

See also: star