Examples of valediction in a Sentence
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New York Times, 1 May 2024
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
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New York Times, 1 May 2024
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
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“Valediction.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/valediction. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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