postlude

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Recent Examples of postlude 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, 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 Make a very long weekend of your trip to the Berkshires with three Boston Symphony concerts and, as a postlude on Monday, an evening with the young players of the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra. New York Times, 12 July 2018 The 14 songs that made up Wednesday’s program were grouped in three sets, with an introduction and postlude, collectively exploring mortal interaction with the gods, the Orestes myth and the deities themselves. John Von Rhein, chicagotribune.com, 7 Sep. 2017 Perhaps the best thing to do with GWTW is to ask anyone who shows the film to put together a prelude or postlude — or maybe a little presentation for the intermission that is usually provided — that interrogates the film’s presentation of history. Ed Kilgore, Daily Intelligencer, 30 Aug. 2017 The six postlude concerts next season will be played by Peter Richard Conte. Peter Dobrin, Philly.com, 7 Aug. 2017 The postlude concerts were studded with some wonderful surprises. Peter Dobrin, Philly.com, 1 May 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for postlude
Noun
  • The producers of the show received a troubling phone call from Antwon in 2023 — and an audio recording of that call served as the cliff-hanging coda of the last episode of the docuseries' previous season.
    Nicole Acosta, People.com, 7 Jan. 2025
  • Advertisement The closures are a striking coda to the Biden administration’s stewardship of the Justice Department’s biggest agency.
    Michael R. Sisak and Michael Balsamo, Los Angeles Times, 5 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • The larger Star Wars story is a generational thing and Omega, in the epilogue, chooses to continue to rebel against the Empire (potentially teasing a follow-up series), yet the original Bad Batch manages to find peace and become more than just soldiers.
    Fran Ruiz, Space.com, 28 Dec. 2024
  • But wait a second because … Here comes that epilogue!
    Jayson Stark, The Athletic, 27 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • The main text is organized alphabetically with an appendix in back offering references by creature type and Challenge Rating.
    Rob Wieland, Forbes, 13 Jan. 2025
  • For Wise, the film brings a more humane dimension to the Helm Hammerhand depicted in Tolkien’s appendices.
    Rochelle Beighton, CNN, 13 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • That's perfectly exemplified in the season finale which gives everyone a fitting send-off.
    Griff Griffin, Newsweek, 7 Jan. 2025
  • The season finale once again takes various characters to a seeming point of no return, and in a way that plays smartly in conversation with events from the end of Season One.
    Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 7 Jan. 2025

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“Postlude.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/postlude. Accessed 22 Jan. 2025.

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