coda

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Recent Examples of coda The moment came as the coda to a touching weekend that also saw Wilson return to the University of South Carolina to see her number 22 jersey retired. Raisa Habersham, Miami Herald, 13 Feb. 2025 But there’s something strangely romantic about this pairing, which Ramsay drills home in the final coda. Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 17 May 2025 The vast Saudi welcome mat—actually an enormous royal purple carpet—is an indulgent coda to Trump's score of recent economic successes. Paul Du Quenoy, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 May 2025 There is a short coda that flashes back to Joel and Ellie in Jackson, smiling and ready to face another day together. Noel Murray, New York Times, 12 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for coda
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Noun
  • Entwistle’s film does in fact have one as well, but test screenings prompted him to add an epilogue, one that includes a surprise cameo that is discussed later on in this interview’s brief spoiler section.
    Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 30 May 2025
  • To save you the trouble, there’s no need to sit through the end credits; there is no surprise epilogue.
    Randy Myers, Mercury News, 19 May 2025
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
  • Case in point: In the USA’s 2-1 victory over Haiti in its Group D finale in the Concacaf Gold Cup on Sunday, June 22, Agyemang was denied by goalkeeper John Placide in the 24th minute.
    Michael Lewis, Forbes.com, 24 June 2025
  • The first season depicts the early life of the biblical figure David, with a series finale centered on David’s fight with the giant Goliath.
    Jenny Goldsberry, The Washington Examiner, 24 June 2025
Noun
  • As part of his daily routine, Combs, 55, is woken up for breakfast at 7 a.m. and afterwords has time to exercise in a room with yoga mats and a small basketball hoop, or to hang in a communal space with a ping-pong table and a TV.
    Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 15 Apr. 2025
  • Her only other book, Airless Spaces, was published in 1998 by the small radical publisher Semiotext(e); it was reissued earlier this year, with an introduction by Chris Kraus and an afterword by Susan Faludi.
    Audrey Wollen, Harpers Magazine, 28 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Common treatments for this type of cancer include surgery to remove the appendix and any other affected organs, as well as chemotherapy to kill any metastasized cancer cells.
    Melissa Rudy, FOXNews.com, 10 June 2025
  • The five-year survival rate for low-grade appendix tumors is between 67 to 97 percent.
    Tom Gavin, EverydayHealth.com, 10 June 2025

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“Coda.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/coda. Accessed 1 Jul. 2025.

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