coda

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Recent Examples of coda The book’s coda is a collection of exciting recipes from pals. Scott Hocker, TheWeek, 8 June 2026 The 79th Annual Tony Awards were a fitting coda to the 2025–26 Broadway season, offering all the requisite nostalgia, vocal prowess, ensemble energy, and a generous amount of pelvic thrusting. Lea Donenberg, Vogue, 8 June 2026 Those are the celebrated opening lines of the first part of Howl’s three parts and its footnoted coda, with that initial sentence running-on for seventy-eight frenetic lines. Literary Hub, 3 June 2026 Zendaya and Domingo do great, resonant work, but even their empathetic portraits of suffering people can’t make this strange coda cohere. Alison Herman, Variety, 1 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for coda
Recent Examples of Synonyms for coda
Noun
  • Anything that happens after this is a coda or an epilogue.
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 15 June 2026
  • This show used to be jagged and messy and unpredictable, a true satire of superhero stories, but this epilogue wouldn’t feel out of place in a Marvel movie.
    Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 20 May 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
  • The finale, which aired on Sunday, June 28, ended with a bang.
    Taylor Ardrey, USA Today, 29 June 2026
  • In the final minutes of the finale, Ebraheim calls Albert with the news that the franchising has begun.
    Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 29 June 2026
Noun
  • Godlike, which was reissued last month by NYRB Classics with a new afterword by Raymond Foye, was originally published in 2005.
    Jarrett Earnest, The New York Review of Books, 11 Mar. 2026
  • Introduction, afterword and compilation copyright © 2026 by Property Of, Inc.
    Via Scribner, Literary Hub, 11 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • The employment agreement includes an appendix that releases the university from all claims for incidents or events prior to the contract’s effective date.
    Daniel Libit, Sportico.com, 27 June 2026
  • An upcoming public health assessment will address the study in an appendix, agency spokesperson Nancy Nydam Shirek said in an email to the AJC.
    Kristi Swartz, AJC.com, 26 June 2026

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“Coda.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/coda. Accessed 30 Jun. 2026.

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