as in appendix
a part added at the end of a book or periodical
the author included an afterword about developments in cancer treatment since the book was written
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This book gathers the best of these portraits, along with a foreword by Vanity Fair editor in chief Radhika Jones and an afterword by actor Alan Cumming.
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Anna Tingley, Variety, 5 Mar. 2024
With a forward by Cher, an afterword by Ellen Pompeo and photographs by Douglas Friedman, every page of Star Style: Interior of Martyn Lawrence Bullard (Vendome Press) is a tribute to the designer’s inimitable style.
—Abigail Stone, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Nov. 2023
As McLean has pointed out, both in her interview and in the afterword to the tenth-anniversary edition of her book, Jeffrey Skilling’s sentence, alongside new financial regulation, held out such promise.
—Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2023
Most also contain scholarly introductions or afterwords to situate the texts (and authors) within their historical and literary milieus.
—Caitie Kelly Angela Koh Natalia Rachlin Natalia Rachlin Erik Morse, New York Times, 3 Aug. 2023
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Anna Tingley, Variety, 5 Mar. 2024
With a forward by Cher, an afterword by Ellen Pompeo and photographs by Douglas Friedman, every page of Star Style: Interior of Martyn Lawrence Bullard (Vendome Press) is a tribute to the designer’s inimitable style.
—Abigail Stone, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Nov. 2023
As McLean has pointed out, both in her interview and in the afterword to the tenth-anniversary edition of her book, Jeffrey Skilling’s sentence, alongside new financial regulation, held out such promise.
—Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2023
Most also contain scholarly introductions or afterwords to situate the texts (and authors) within their historical and literary milieus.
—Caitie Kelly Angela Koh Natalia Rachlin Natalia Rachlin Erik Morse, New York Times, 3 Aug. 2023
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“Afterword.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/afterword. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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