coda

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Recent Examples of coda But there’s something strangely romantic about this pairing, which Ramsay drills home in the final coda. Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 17 May 2025 The vast Saudi welcome mat—actually an enormous royal purple carpet—is an indulgent coda to Trump's score of recent economic successes. Paul Du Quenoy, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 May 2025 There is a short coda that flashes back to Joel and Ellie in Jackson, smiling and ready to face another day together. Noel Murray, New York Times, 12 May 2025 There is no more fitting coda to this chaotic era than what’s happened the past few days in Knoxville, Tenn., where quarterback Nico Iamaleava skipped practice and his representatives used the threat of the transfer portal, which opens this week, to seek a bigger, better deal at Tennessee. Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 14 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for coda
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Noun
  • The epilogue takes the form of an obituary for the magazine’s late founder, but also acts as Anderson’s charming ode to the golden age of longform journalism.
    Shannon Carlin, Time, 30 May 2025
  • In the novel’s epilogue, Professor Pieixoto is speculating about the alternative identities of the woman who made the recordings.
    Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 27 May 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
  • Yes, Karate Kid: Legends takes place three years after the Cobra Kai series finale.
    Christopher Rudolph, People.com, 31 May 2025
  • Karate Kid: Legends takes place three years after Cobra Kai’s series finale, but was anything off limits with regard to Cobra Kai?
    Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 30 May 2025
Noun
  • As part of his daily routine, Combs, 55, is woken up for breakfast at 7 a.m. and afterwords has time to exercise in a room with yoga mats and a small basketball hoop, or to hang in a communal space with a ping-pong table and a TV.
    Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 15 Apr. 2025
  • Her only other book, Airless Spaces, was published in 1998 by the small radical publisher Semiotext(e); it was reissued earlier this year, with an introduction by Chris Kraus and an afterword by Susan Faludi.
    Audrey Wollen, Harpers Magazine, 28 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • One day an 8-year-old girl is rushed to your operating room suffering from a ruptured appendix.
    Michael Ashley, Forbes.com, 3 June 2025
  • Earlier this month, Bindi Irwin had her appendix removed.
    Sara Vallone, Miami Herald, 25 May 2025

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