postscript

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Recent Examples of postscript 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 Linklater makes this clear in a postscript at the end of the film, but the choice is indicative of the surrealistic spin Linklater gave Johnson’s life story. Declan Gallagher, EW.com, 7 June 2024 See all Example Sentences for postscript 
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Noun
  • What’s different is the depiction of Lee and Allerton's profound, hallucinogenic experience while on ayahuasca and the movie’s full jump into the surreal with its epilogue.
    Nick Romano, EW.com, 27 Nov. 2024
  • His appearance with one eye covered in the final epilogue was truly striking.
    Regina Kim, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2024
Noun
  • The film ends with a coda, set some twenty years after the main action.
    Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 13 Dec. 2024
  • To say that the combination of all of these elements leads up to a final act and a fill-in-the-blanks coda that devastates you all the more for its unusual attack on your emotional reserves does not do justice to the actual act of seeing it.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 12 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • The earnings show how business balance sheets stack up in the aftermath of Beijing’s steps aimed at stimulating the economy.
    Lee Ying Shan, CNBC, 27 Dec. 2024
  • Despite that, some have cast Luigi Mangione, the 26-year-old suspect charged with Thompson’s murder, as a heroic figure in the aftermath of his arrest, which gave rise to an outpouring of grievances about insurance companies.
    LINLEY SANDERS, TIME, 27 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • 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
  • But the measures that Beijing’s economic planning agency announced this week proved to be an anticlimax — the trillions of yuan that observers were hoping would be revealed never materialized.
    Janis Mackey Frayer, NBC News, 12 Oct. 2024

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“Postscript.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/postscript. Accessed 30 Dec. 2024.

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