postscript

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Recent Examples of postscript Woman of the Hour acknowledges in a postscript that survivors and other private citizens had reported Alcala to law enforcement for a decade, but this after-the-fact treatment almost downplays the sheer volume of his previous crimes. Laura Bradley, Vulture, 18 Oct. 2024 Synnott wrote about the ordeal in the book’s postscript, and published a lengthy essay about the revelation on Salon.com China has never acknowledged that its climbing teams found Irvine or Mallory. Frederick Dreier, Outside Online, 11 Oct. 2024 The Falklands War might form a small postscript in more recent volumes; but with the handover of Hong Kong to China in 1997, there seems no more empire to meaningfully speak of. Balaji Ravichandran, Washington Post, 12 June 2024 With both women pledging their support to Trump, the fight seemed less a proxy for the party’s feelings about the former president than a postscript to the bitter 2022 Republican primary for U.S. Senate. Mark Pazniokas, Hartford Courant, 29 May 2024 See All Example Sentences for postscript
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Noun
  • Katniss Everdeen and her parents Katniss makes a brief appearance in the epilogue when the story flashes forward to post-rebellion society, where survivors of the war are collecting stories for a memorial book.
    Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 18 Mar. 2025
  • Only a brief and succinct reference to the tragedy is made in the book’s epilogue.
    David Chiu, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Duterte’s arrest and removal from the country is a stunning coda to a stormy and violent stint at the top of Philippine politics.
    Rob Picheta, CNN, 11 Mar. 2025
  • Seconds later, tennis pro — and Drake’s ex — Serena Williams popped up in the sidelines, crip-walking her little heart out by a lamppost in a nasty coda to hip-hop's bitterest feud.
    Jason Lamphier, EW.com, 10 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • In the immediate aftermath of the election, markets rallied and businesses celebrated the dawn of a friendlier era for regulation.
    Neil Irwin, Axios, 14 Mar. 2025
  • Though that seemed to decline in the immediate aftermath of the Flyers trading away Scott Laughton and Erik Johnson last Friday, they’ve at least been more energized lately.
    Kevin Kurz, The Athletic, 14 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • After months of high-profile proceedings in the lower courts – at one point the medication, mifepristone, was almost pulled from the market entirely – the case ended in a judicial anticlimax.
    Sophie Hills, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 June 2024
  • Her attitude is less one of fear than of gnawing bitterness at the anticlimax of her ending.
    Sam Sacks, Harper's Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025

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