postscript

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Recent Examples of postscript The postscript to the Black Friday weekend is your last chance to take advantage of huge price drops on must-get tech. K. Thor Jensen, PCMAG, 2 Dec. 2024 The free-agent additions, the draft and (this week) a trade for impact prospect Matthew Savoie collectively represent a breathtaking postscript to the long playoff run and a clear indication of the team’s impatience to finish the run to Stanley. Allan Mitchell, The Athletic, 7 July 2024 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 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
  • That’s bad news for millions of people in the central and southern US dealing with active flooding and those trying to clean up in the aftermath.
    Mary Gilbert, CNN Money, 7 Apr. 2025
  • Everything about it is suspicious: the fact that Rosemary married BJ in the aftermath, that the fire happened in the first place, and that BJ himself was the next to go.
    Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 7 Apr. 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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