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This record and tour are by no means a last valediction to her music career.—August Brown, Los Angeles Times, 30 May 2024 Laboe was known to leave a playful valediction — a smooch — at the end of his show.—Sarah Quiñones Wolfson, Los Angeles Times, 15 Feb. 2024 Dorfman’s new book, his thirty-eighth, feels like a valediction to a career that, until now, has been varied in its instruments but consistent in its vision.—Jonathan Dee, The New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2023 Will the delicate touch that has scored so effectively with viewers and Emmy voters be abandoned for mawkish valedictions?—John Anderson, WSJ, 14 Mar. 2023 The takeaway is this: In effect, despite this year’s somewhat patchwork Pegasus field, there are some fast horses in it, and the Pegasus — Cyberknife’s valediction — is ironically the only race that can answer the question that the Derby posed for him 9 months ago.—Guy Martin, Forbes, 28 Jan. 2023 In addition to keeping him on as head of NIAID, President Biden made Fauci his chief medical advisor, a valediction to more than a half-century of public service.—Melissa Healystaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 22 Dec. 2022 This is a sensitive but dreary novel of valediction that pursues atonement without any apparent belief that such a thing is possible.—Sam Sacks, WSJ, 5 Mar. 2021 The 12-song disc ends up being both something of a retrospective and perhaps a valediction.—Star Tribune, 22 Oct. 2020
Word History
Etymology
borrowed from New Latin valedictiōn-, valedictiō, from Latin valedic-, alternate stem of vale dīcere, valedīcere "to say goodbye," (from vale, interjection, "goodbye, farewell," reduced form of valē, imperative of valēre "to have strength, be well" + dīcere "to speak, say") + -tiōn-, -tiō, noun suffix of action — more at wield, diction
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