coda

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Recent Examples of coda And yet his flair for provocation persists in the film’s scorpion sting of a coda, which brings forth a new interpretation of László’s legacy: one that essentially recasts his work as stealth propaganda, a Zionist Trojan horse. Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 20 Dec. 2024 The producers of the show received a troubling phone call from Antwon in 2023 — and an audio recording of that call served as the cliff-hanging coda of the last episode of the docuseries' previous season. Nicole Acosta, People.com, 7 Jan. 2025 Advertisement The closures are a striking coda to the Biden administration’s stewardship of the Justice Department’s biggest agency. Michael R. Sisak and Michael Balsamo, Los Angeles Times, 5 Dec. 2024 The lawsuit, filed just before 6 p.m. on Dec. 24, is a fitting coda to a year that saw Presley's iconic Memphis home nearly auctioned off as part of what federal authorities now call an attempt to defraud both Presley's family and Elvis Presley Enterprises. Sasha Pezenik, ABC News, 31 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for coda 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for coda
Noun
  • After nearly two centuries of bitter but worthless wrangling, one of the longest-running cultural quarrels in Europe might soon be entering its epilogue.
    Ralph Leonard, The Atlantic, 4 Feb. 2025
  • The book’s epilogue imagines a world in which similar missions don’t go so well; a fictional NASA spokesperson describes the mysterious loss of a crewed space capsule.
    Cal Newport, The New Yorker, 29 Jan. 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
  • Prequel series Dexter: Original Sin will release its Season 1 finale this Friday, Feb. 14, on the Paramount+ With Showtime streamer; the episode will air on the linear Paramount+ With Showtime Sunday, Feb. 16 at 10/9c.
    Nick Caruso, TVLine, 11 Feb. 2025
  • In between New Blood and the forthcoming Resurrection is Dexter: Original Sin, the currently airing prequel series that releases its finale this weekend.
    Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • Venuti, in his afterword, points out that parts of the novel can be read as a critique of Fascist machismo.
    Christopher Tayler, Harper's Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Eventually, the group locates the fourth appendix and starts reading from it.
    Erin Qualey, Vulture, 7 Feb. 2025
  • The book ends with a pair of appendices that will help out Dungeon Masters in a pinch.
    Rob Wieland, Forbes, 9 Dec. 2024

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“Coda.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/coda. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.

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