coda

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Recent Examples of coda To his credit, the filmmaker handles this dark material with considerable showmanship, shifting from the most striking chiaroscuro black-and-white to bursts of near-garish technicolor, giving each grim coda a distinct visual texture. Ben Croll, IndieWire, 13 Feb. 2026 As a coda, the final gallery reveals a wall-size collaboration between Pomara and multimedia artist Laura Kim. Benjamin Lima, Dallas Morning News, 11 Feb. 2026 Vegas bought more peak seasons; another team can pay Hanifin for his coda. Allan Mitchell, New York Times, 28 Jan. 2026 But the surprising climax, plus an amusing coda, brings it all home. Frank Scheck, HollywoodReporter, 26 Jan. 2026 See All Example Sentences for coda
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Noun
  • Television would seem to be a medium well suited to epilogues.
    Noel Murray, Vulture, 23 Feb. 2026
  • In a moving epilogue to the story, Shoval returns to Berlin next week in the company of David and Ariel Cunio and their families for a screening of the new version.
    Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 11 Feb. 2026
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
  • After you're done chowing down, make for the Santa Monica Pier, where Route 66 finally runs out of road, and the Pacific Ocean rolls in—a fittingly cinematic finale to this all-American adventure.
    Zoey Goto, Travel + Leisure, 8 Mar. 2026
  • Dos Santos is continuing to recover from facial surgery, while Sisniega was forced to miss SDFC’s opener because of a red card he was assessed in last season’s playoff finale.
    Ryan Finley, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • In an afterword, there are biographies of people well known to us (and some forgotten) who played a part in our city’s history.
    Mary Ann Grossmann, Twin Cities, 1 Feb. 2026
  • In her 1985 afterword to The Ha-Ha, Jennifer Dawson explores its sociopolitical and feminist implications, rather than religious or philosophical themes.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 21 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • Doctors at a Broward County urgent care clinic said her 13-year-old daughter’s appendix was at risk of bursting.
    Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 20 Feb. 2026
  • The winter Olympic games are often seen as more of an appendix to their larger summertime counterparts than a tentpole in themselves.
    Alison Herman, Variety, 6 Feb. 2026

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“Coda.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/coda. Accessed 10 Mar. 2026.

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