postscript

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Recent Examples of postscript 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 The postscript with the hobbits is still dull, but everything else in this still knocks you over. 34. Will Leitch, Vulture, 11 Mar. 2024 See all Example Sentences for postscript 
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Noun
  • After nearly two centuries of bitter but worthless wrangling, one of the longest-running cultural quarrels in Europe might soon be entering its epilogue.
    Ralph Leonard, The Atlantic, 4 Feb. 2025
  • The book’s epilogue imagines a world in which similar missions don’t go so well; a fictional NASA spokesperson describes the mysterious loss of a crewed space capsule.
    Cal Newport, The New Yorker, 29 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Armand of the title is Elisabeth’s six-year-old son, never shown onscreen outside of a key final coda.
    Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 5 Feb. 2025
  • One of the first drafts of this story had the voice of the coda in the beginning, too, framing the story as a kind of monologue.
    Deborah Treisman, The New Yorker, 5 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Many of us have been witness to the aftermath of a toddler being refused one of their many requests.
    Renee Winick, Twin Cities, 7 Feb. 2025
  • The fate of Lupita Nyong’o’s home is still unknown in the aftermath of the devastating wildfires that ravaged Los Angeles.
    Karu F. Daniels, New York Daily News, 7 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • When the cousins leave the tour to find the house where their grandmother grew up, they are headed for an anticlimax.
    Gal Beckerman, The Atlantic, 1 Nov. 2024

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