coda

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Recent Examples of coda The end credits provide a satisfying coda informing us about the real-life figures involved, including Roya Mahboob being named one of Time magazine’s 100 Most Influential People in the World. Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Mar. 2025 The moment came as the coda to a touching weekend that also saw Wilson return to the University of South Carolina to see her number 22 jersey retired. Raisa Habersham, Miami Herald, 13 Feb. 2025 But there’s something strangely romantic about this pairing, which Ramsay drills home in the final coda. Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 17 May 2025 The vast Saudi welcome mat—actually an enormous royal purple carpet—is an indulgent coda to Trump's score of recent economic successes. Paul Du Quenoy, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for coda
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Noun
  • Though its epilogue shows how much the Front Man came to sympathize with Gi-hun’s perspective—that people are worth saving—Squid Game ends with one more surprise to highlight the tournament’s savagery.
    Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 27 June 2025
  • Entwistle’s film does in fact have one as well, but test screenings prompted him to add an epilogue, one that includes a surprise cameo that is discussed later on in this interview’s brief spoiler section.
    Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 30 May 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
  • In the second film's big finale, the main trio Phil (Bradley Cooper), Alan (Galifianakis), and Stu (Helms) ride a giant speedboat to Stu's wedding.
    Daysia Tolentino, EW.com, 5 July 2025
  • Metallica was the penultimate band to perform before the Osbourne/Black Sabbath finale performances.
    Althea Legaspi, Rolling Stone, 5 July 2025
Noun
  • Reviewed: Instead of a Letter by Diana Athill, with an afterword by Lena Dunham New York Review Books, 232 pp., $16.95 (paper) Vivian Gornick Vivian Gornick is the author, most recently, of Taking a Long Look: Essays on Culture, Literature, and Feminism in Our Time.
    Vivian Gornick, The New York Review of Books, 27 Feb. 2025
  • As part of his daily routine, Combs, 55, is woken up for breakfast at 7 a.m. and afterwords has time to exercise in a room with yoga mats and a small basketball hoop, or to hang in a communal space with a ping-pong table and a TV.
    Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 15 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Although cancer of the appendix is rare – typically, it’s estimated to affect about 1 or 2 people for every 1 million in the United States each year – diagnoses are rising sharply among Generation X and millennials, according to a new study.
    Jacqueline Howard, CNN Money, 15 June 2025
  • Appendix cancer is often found after someone has appendicitis and gets their appendix removed.
    Kristen Fischer, Health, 13 June 2025

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