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
  • The independent film’s script was more than 160 pages long, split into an overture, two parts and an epilogue that chronicles the journey of a Hungarian Jewish architect, played by Adrien Brody, who immigrates to the U.S. after World War II in search of a new beginning for himself and his family.
    Samantha Masunaga, Los Angeles Times, 23 Dec. 2024
  • 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
Noun
  • 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
Noun
  • In the aftermath of the 1980 riots, Babcock Jr. helped redevelop Liberty City.
    Ben Wieder, Miami Herald, 26 Jan. 2025
  • The series is basically an alternate history of the US in the aftermath of World War II.
    Jennifer Ouellette, WIRED, 25 Jan. 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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