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coda

noun

Definition of coda

as in epilogue

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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

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The transfer of the Chelsea art space is only the epilogue for Marlborough’s multi-year breakdown—the gallery’s closure in 2024 came after years of escalating strife and discord.

— News Desk, Artforum, 9 July 2026
Foreign Tongues may or may not be the Stones’ final album, but in many ways, this nod to their roots feels like an appropriate epilogue.

— David Harris, SPIN, 6 July 2026

Definition of epilogue

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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

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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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