coda

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Recent Examples of coda 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 The pardons were a remarkable coda to Mr. Biden’s 50-year political career, underscoring the mistrust and anger that the president feels about Mr. Trump, the man who preceded and will succeed him in office. Michael D. Shear, New York Times, 20 Jan. 2025 Lamar’s surprise album was a drop-everything coda to his beef with Drake, full of lyrical Easter eggs to keep fans talking. Justin Curto, Vulture, 17 Jan. 2025 And yet his flair for provocation persists in the film’s scorpion sting of a coda, which brings forth a new interpretation of László’s legacy: one that essentially recasts his work as stealth propaganda, a Zionist Trojan horse. Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 20 Dec. 2024 See All Example Sentences for coda
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Noun
  • In the book’s epilogue, a canary is given a piece of sugar after a funeral.
    New York Times, New York Times, 25 Jan. 2025
  • 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
Noun
  • The event is led by Bob Lundy and Elizabeth Yahn Williams with preludes and postludes of pianist Andrew Wong and assisted by artist Marion Wong, illustrator of the HAÏKU for an Artist series.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 July 2019
  • The dance now continues and switches gears as sound bites of Ailey and of Mr. Harris present a postlude suggesting them in conversation.
    Robert Greskovic, WSJ, 12 Dec. 2018
Noun
  • The Irish return home to host Florida State, while the Wolfpack plays its home finale against Wake Forest.
    Aaron Beard, Chicago Tribune, 23 Feb. 2025
  • However, during the Thursday, February 20 finale of Scamanda – the ABC special about her story – viewers received an unexpected update on her current health status.
    Tom Rogers, Newsweek, 22 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Thrilled to Death collects a career-spanning selection of her short stories starting from the early ’90s, with an afterword by Lucy Sante.
    Vulture Editors, Vulture, 7 Jan. 2025
  • Venuti, in his afterword, points out that parts of the novel can be read as a critique of Fascist machismo.
    Christopher Tayler, Harper's Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Lévêque was 9 years old when her appendix was removed by the surgeon.
    Linda Hervieux, NBC News, 23 Feb. 2025
  • The release of the redacted appendix, which was an attachment to the immunity motion unsealed two weeks ago by U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan that included new details about Trump and his allies' actions leading up to the Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol, is currently scheduled for Thursday.
    Alexander Mallin, ABC News, 17 Oct. 2024

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“Coda.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/coda. Accessed 9 Mar. 2025.

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