coda

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Recent Examples of coda As if a perfect coda to a day of acrimony, Kennedy pulled out his phone and scrolled as Senators were winding down the day. Philip Elliott, Time, 4 Sep. 2025 The relative offered a coda to the shipwreck discovery story with a personal, and emotional, one of his own. Frank Witsil, Freep.com, 29 Aug. 2025 There’s a coda to the theater: Musk has already embedded Grok across his empire, from X to Tesla, creating his own distribution lanes. Anisha Sircar, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2025 Like a rondo, the refrain of family alternates with the contrasting themes, ultimately building to its chilling coda. Kevin Dickinson, Big Think, 8 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for coda
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Noun
  • While Houston’s mention was more of an epilogue than a dissertation on the state of the room, the preseason star is firmly part of the pass rush story through five weeks.
    Nick Harris, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 6 Oct. 2025
  • Yet Lupino brings such intensity and anger to her performance that the film’s register shifts into something far darker — so dark, in fact, that a prologue and epilogue Jack Warner insisted be added to make the movie more glamorous focus on a suicide attempt!
    Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 25 Sep. 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
  • The show premiered in the fall of 2024 and was renewed for a second season in January ahead of the season finale.
    Jordan Moreau, Variety, 13 Oct. 2025
  • By the finale, Ellen learns that Colum has broken her promise not to hurt Brian.
    Max Gao, HollywoodReporter, 13 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • In the life of a Witch, there is no ‘after’ in the ‘ever after’ of a Witch there is no ‘happily;’ in the story of a Witch, there is no afterword.
    Jason Pham, StyleCaster, 28 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • While the appendix could be removed that morning, the tumor would require an entirely different battle.
    MSNBC Newsweek, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Oct. 2025
  • As part of the terms ending the four-year-long occupation, Washington required that Cuba integrate something called the Platt Amendment into an appendix of the island’s 1901 constitution.
    Miriam Pensack, The Dial, 30 Sep. 2025

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“Coda.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/coda. Accessed 14 Oct. 2025.

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