postscript

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Recent Examples of postscript Woman of the Hour acknowledges in a postscript that survivors and other private citizens had reported Alcala to law enforcement for a decade, but this after-the-fact treatment almost downplays the sheer volume of his previous crimes. Laura Bradley, Vulture, 18 Oct. 2024 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 See All Example Sentences for postscript
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Noun
  • There’s a jarring note in the epilogue intertitles, which state that Wolfe, who has been presented thus far as an abuser, as a pioneer in female wrestling.
    Murtada Elfadl, Variety, 8 Mar. 2025
  • The film stars Torres, with her mother Montenegro appearing in the film’s epilogue as an older version of Paiva before her death in 2018.
    Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 2 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Democrats were beside themselves, seeing this as a fitting coda after one of the most unproductive congressional sessions in modern times.
    Lisa Mascaro and Kevin Freking, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Dec. 2024
  • Sadly, that’s a moral gauntlet that writers of the sequel (promised by a major celebrity in this film’s coda) will have to pick up.
    Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • In the aftermath, fire officials have faced criticism over their early response and questions have been raised over whether the devastation could have been minimized.
    Hanna Park, Karina Tsui and Amanda Jackson, CNN, 3 Mar. 2025
  • Opel became a minor celebrity in the immediate aftermath, and the media clamored to learn more about him.
    Jordan Runtagh, People.com, 2 Mar. 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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