coda

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Recent Examples of coda The pleasure mostly derives from picking out the remaining ambiguities, especially related to the film’s flash-forward coda; the finale has already inspired a lot of heated social-media debate over its intention. David Sims, The Atlantic, 10 Jan. 2025 Armand of the title is Elisabeth’s six-year-old son, never shown onscreen outside of a key final coda. Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 5 Feb. 2025 One of the first drafts of this story had the voice of the coda in the beginning, too, framing the story as a kind of monologue. Deborah Treisman, The New Yorker, 5 Jan. 2025 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 See All Example Sentences for coda
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Noun
  • Katniss Everdeen and her parents Katniss makes a brief appearance in the epilogue when the story flashes forward to post-rebellion society, where survivors of the war are collecting stories for a memorial book.
    Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 18 Mar. 2025
  • Only a brief and succinct reference to the tragedy is made in the book’s epilogue.
    David Chiu, Forbes, 25 Feb. 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
  • Cold Harbor, the evocative season two finale of Severance, clearly resonates with leadership strategists as a case study in the risks of extreme compartmentalization.
    Benjamin Laker, Forbes, 21 Mar. 2025
  • Some of the most prolific talents the show has ever produced strutted straight out of the show's third installment, which culminated in a finale that saw fan-favorite model Yaya DaCosta duke it out against Eva Marcille (more on her, later) on the runway.
    EW.com, EW.com, 20 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • In the afterword to his novel, Volkov addresses his young readers directly.
    Christin Bohnke, JSTOR Daily, 5 Mar. 2025
  • Thrilled to Death collects a career-spanning selection of her short stories starting from the early ’90s, with an afterword by Lucy Sante.
    Vulture Editors, Vulture, 7 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Lévêque was 9 years old when her appendix was removed by the surgeon.
    Linda Hervieux, NBC News, 23 Feb. 2025
  • The release of the redacted appendix, which was an attachment to the immunity motion unsealed two weeks ago by U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan that included new details about Trump and his allies' actions leading up to the Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol, is currently scheduled for Thursday.
    Alexander Mallin, ABC News, 17 Oct. 2024

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“Coda.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/coda. Accessed 24 Mar. 2025.

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