coda

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Recent Examples of coda Ironically, The World Will Tremble proves most effective in its coda, when onscreen text informs us that the two men provided the first eyewitness account of the mass murder of Jews. Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Mar. 2025 Biden’s 13-minute address marked not only as his departing words after four years in the nation’s highest office, but also served as a coda to a career of public service that spanned more than half a century. Michael Collins, USA TODAY, 16 Jan. 2025 But this feels like a footnote more than a proper coda. Tom Gliatto, People.com, 3 Jan. 2025 The world figure skating championships are back on US soil The world's best figure skaters will converge at TD Garden in Boston this week for the latest edition of the annual world championships, which will serve as both a coda to the 2024-2025 season and a key benchmark for the year to come. Nicole Fallert, USA Today, 26 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for coda
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Noun
  • Instead, the book’s epilogue jumps ahead to 2195 and reveals that the main narrative of the novel is a transcription of audio tapes discovered long after the fall of Gilead that are being presented in an academic setting.
    Lissete Lanuza Sáenz, StyleCaster, 9 Apr. 2025
  • There’s a photo epilogue of the real soldiers, and many of their faces are blurred.
    Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 7 Apr. 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
  • His last show was Saturday night's season 50 finale.
    EW.com, EW.com, 20 May 2025
  • Not interspersed with the rest of the story, but all at once in a single episode that slams hard on the brakes after last week’s intense finish and gives everyone a moment to breathe before the big Season 2 finale next week.
    Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 19 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
  • Earlier this month, Bindi Irwin had her appendix removed.
    Sara Vallone, Miami Herald, 25 May 2025
  • The appendix can burst within 24 hours or less of symptoms starting.
    Brandi Jones, Health, 17 May 2025

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