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
  • By the epilogue, Sam and Percy are living together and making plans for the future.
    Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 10 June 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
  • Boston’s Ranger Suarez faces right-hander Ryan Johnson in Sunday night’s series finale.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 5 July 2026
  • The finale may leave viewers feeling unsettled, but the show has already been renewed for a second season.
    Alex Jhamb Burns, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 July 2026
Noun
  • Introduction, afterword and compilation copyright © 2026 by Property Of, Inc.
    Via Scribner, Literary Hub, 11 Mar. 2026
  • 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
Noun
  • Not because a new appendix deserves a barnstorming tour, or because county unemployment data has suddenly become beach reading.
    Andrew Leahey, Forbes.com, 29 June 2026
  • 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

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“Coda.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/coda. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.

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