coda

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Recent Examples of coda Hutcherson learned of that coda only as the book hit shelves in March. Adam B. Vary, Variety, 22 Nov. 2025 A week after announcing his retirement from music, Whitesnake singer David Coverdale, 74, added an emotional coda to his nearly six-decade music career. Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 21 Nov. 2025 This could indicate that sperm whale coda vocalizations may represent close parallels to how human speech is organized. Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 12 Nov. 2025 Wright, however, adds a coda that, without spoiling anything, introduces something extra to the zero-sum game. David Fear, Rolling Stone, 11 Nov. 2025 See All Example Sentences for coda
Recent Examples of Synonyms for coda
Noun
  • The record is intended as something like an epilogue to his 2024 album Atlas of Green, which told the story of a musician named Green from the distant future.
    Colin Joyce, Pitchfork, 28 Jan. 2026
  • By the closing epilogue of the MM romance novel, the author must figure out how to create honest stakes for a gay couple in an overwhelmingly heteronormative context that threatens the heroes with societal subjugation and maybe even physical punishment.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 22 Jan. 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
  • In the series finale of Yellowstone, which aired in December 2024, fans saw the youngest son save Yellowstone Ranch by selling the land to Broken Rock Reservation.
    Samantha Stutsman, PEOPLE, 1 Feb. 2026
  • In the finale, allegiances have flipped.
    Hunter Ingram, Variety, 1 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
  • The final version is nearly 1,000 pages with an additional 1,600 pages in appendices.
    Lana Ferguson, Dallas Morning News, 27 Jan. 2026
  • The Martins and former group member Andre Thomas, 48, have also been charged with the killing of 4-year-old Timothy Thomas, who was found dead of septic shock caused by a ruptured appendix at one of the group’s properties in Colton in 2010.
    Clara Harter, Los Angeles Times, 17 Jan. 2026

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“Coda.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/coda. Accessed 3 Feb. 2026.

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