coda

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Recent Examples of coda And besides, by the time the 31st arrives, people are holiday-seasoned out, and New Year’s feels more like a Christmas coda. James Grebey, Vulture, 30 Dec. 2025 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 See All Example Sentences for coda
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Noun
  • In 2024, the Reader lost close to a half million dollars and started 2025 by cutting staff and its $4 million budget, seemingly on the verge of its epilogue.
    Robert Channick, Chicago Tribune, 30 Jan. 2026
  • 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
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
  • His piece of genius separated the sides entering the 84th minute but during a chaotic finale, the hosts conspired to grab defeat from the jaws of victory.
    James Pearce, New York Times, 9 Feb. 2026
  • The Main Event Three teams — Team Fresh, Reality Royalty, and The Menaces — faced off in basketball, soccer penalty kicks, and a high-intensity dodgeball finale inside the famed league arena known for celebrity basketball showdowns.
    Kaitlyn Gomez, USA Today, 8 Feb. 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
  • 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
  • In 2010, 4-year-old Timothy Thomas died of a ruptured appendix while in the custody of the Martins at one of the group’s homes in Colton, authorities said.
    Clara Harter, Los Angeles Times, 6 Feb. 2026

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

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