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
  • Dever's Cassie appears at the very end of 2016's Uncharted 4: A Thief's End in a playable epilogue.
    Nick Romano, EW.com, 2 Apr. 2025
  • Microsoft's recent announcement that Skype will be shutting down in May 2025 provides a perfect epilogue to a 14-year journey that began with an $8.5 billion acquisition.
    Jennifer J. Fondrevay, Forbes.com, 31 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Far more interesting than the race-against-time climax is the quieter coda that follows.
    David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 20 Mar. 2025
  • Duterte’s arrest and removal from the country is a stunning coda to a stormy and violent stint at the top of Philippine politics.
    Rob Picheta, CNN, 11 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • In the aftermath of Trump’s second ascendancy to the Oval Office this January, legislators in at least five states have introduced measures asking the Supreme Court to officially overturn Obergefell.
    Samantha Riedel, Them., 27 Mar. 2025
  • Soil testing in the aftermath of previous wildfires found that a significant portion of properties still had excessive levels of heavy metals even after cleanup crews removed a 3-to-6-inch layer of topsoil.
    Tony Briscoe, Los Angeles Times, 27 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • After months of high-profile proceedings in the lower courts – at one point the medication, mifepristone, was almost pulled from the market entirely – the case ended in a judicial anticlimax.
    Sophie Hills, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 June 2024
  • 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

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