as in appendix
a part added at the end of a book or periodical a codicil to the treaty was necessary to clarify certain provisos that had proved to be ambiguous

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Recent Examples of codicil Among those codicils is the following in the catalog of betting events allowed in the Bay State: Wagers on Summer and Winter Olympic competition (including trials) . . . Bill Speros, Boston Herald, 23 July 2024 Catalin Moreno Voss, Ello’s co-founder and chief technology officer, had heard a lot of interesting stories and codicils from job applicants in his career. Stacy St Clair, The Mercury News, 2 Aug. 2024 This seemed to me to breach some fundamental codicil of the documentary filmmaker code: to show some version of the truth in their work, to endeavor for verisimilitude whenever and wherever possible. Bill Desowitz, IndieWire, 5 July 2024

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“Codicil.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/codicil. Accessed 26 Mar. 2025.

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