as in appendix
a part added at the end of a book or periodical
a codicil to the treaty was necessary to clarify certain provisos that had proved to be ambiguous
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Recent Examples of codicil
Catalin Moreno Voss, Ello’s co-founder and chief technology officer, had heard a lot of interesting stories and codicils from job applicants in his career.
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Stacy St Clair, The Mercury News, 2 Aug. 2024
Among those codicils is the following in the catalog of betting events allowed in the Bay State:
Wagers on Summer and Winter Olympic competition (including trials) . . .
—Bill Speros, Boston Herald, 23 July 2024
This seemed to me to breach some fundamental codicil of the documentary filmmaker code: to show some version of the truth in their work, to endeavor for verisimilitude whenever and wherever possible.
—Bill Desowitz, IndieWire, 5 July 2024
And there are numerous codicils to the julep making process.
—Frederick N. Rasmussen, Baltimore Sun, 30 Apr. 2024
The 2016 codicil had a startling effect.
—Dallas News, 22 Jan. 2023
The codicil — which is to be found in the same reality that gave rise to the concept of a casual restaurant — is not to disturb other diners.
—Washington Post, 17 Nov. 2021
Stacy St Clair, The Mercury News, 2 Aug. 2024
Among those codicils is the following in the catalog of betting events allowed in the Bay State:
Wagers on Summer and Winter Olympic competition (including trials) . . .
—Bill Speros, Boston Herald, 23 July 2024
This seemed to me to breach some fundamental codicil of the documentary filmmaker code: to show some version of the truth in their work, to endeavor for verisimilitude whenever and wherever possible.
—Bill Desowitz, IndieWire, 5 July 2024
And there are numerous codicils to the julep making process.
—Frederick N. Rasmussen, Baltimore Sun, 30 Apr. 2024
The 2016 codicil had a startling effect.
—Dallas News, 22 Jan. 2023
The codicil — which is to be found in the same reality that gave rise to the concept of a casual restaurant — is not to disturb other diners.
—Washington Post, 17 Nov. 2021
Recent Examples of Synonyms for codicil
appendix
Noun
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While the appendix could be removed that morning, the tumor would require an entirely different battle.—
MSNBC Newsweek,
MSNBC Newsweek,
8 Oct. 2025
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As part of the terms ending the four-year-long occupation, Washington required that Cuba integrate something called the Platt Amendment into an appendix of the island’s 1901 constitution.—
Miriam Pensack,
The Dial,
30 Sep. 2025
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“Codicil.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/codicil. Accessed 20 Oct. 2025.
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