postscript
noun
post·script
ˈpōs(t)-ˌskript 
: a note or series of notes appended to a completed letter, article, or book
Examples of postscript in a Sentence
In a postscript to her letter, she promised to write again soon.
An interesting postscript to the story is that the two people involved later got married.
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Steve Buckley, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2025
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And there’s a little postscript.
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Come to find out, Daniel has been quoting a sentence from the resulting column to audiences for 33 years, and I am honored to be a postscript to an addendum to a footnote of an incident with such impact.
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Steve Buckley, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2025
The bloodletting has seemingly only just begun in a tense postscript of the first game between the countries since a gun massacre of tourists in April in Kashmir pushed nuclear-armed rivals India and Pakistan to the brink of war.
—Tristan Lavalette, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
And there’s a little postscript.
—Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 12 Sep. 2025
Come to find out, Daniel has been quoting a sentence from the resulting column to audiences for 33 years, and I am honored to be a postscript to an addendum to a footnote of an incident with such impact.
—Neal Rubin, Freep.com, 6 Sep. 2025
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postscript
noun
post·script
ˈpō(s)-ˌskript
: a note or series of notes added at the end of a letter, article, or book
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