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Recent Examples of colophon
Material features can also include things like colophons—formulas at the end of a text that attest to its completeness and fidelity and often also include the name of the copyist—doodles in the margins, mistakes and corrections, even handwriting style.
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The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 22 Apr. 2025
First, researchers turned to an existing catalogue of Benedictine colophons, reviewing all 23,774 entries for linguistic confirmations of gender.
—Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 2 Apr. 2025
The ongoing nature of the colophon rendered the artwork a continuous collaboration across time—sometimes centuries—rather than something that could be finished and put away.
—WIRED, 19 Sep. 2023
Like the colophon actually means like these are the people who made it.
—Lale Arikoglu, Condé Nast Traveler, 5 Aug. 2020
The differences between the editions, which begin with the colophon, include extended or altered scenes and three distinct endings.
—James Yeh, New York Times, 3 May 2020
The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 22 Apr. 2025
First, researchers turned to an existing catalogue of Benedictine colophons, reviewing all 23,774 entries for linguistic confirmations of gender.
—Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 2 Apr. 2025
The ongoing nature of the colophon rendered the artwork a continuous collaboration across time—sometimes centuries—rather than something that could be finished and put away.
—WIRED, 19 Sep. 2023
Like the colophon actually means like these are the people who made it.
—Lale Arikoglu, Condé Nast Traveler, 5 Aug. 2020
The differences between the editions, which begin with the colophon, include extended or altered scenes and three distinct endings.
—James Yeh, New York Times, 3 May 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for colophon
Noun
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Now Zegler, who is very much one of those people, gets to make her own stamp.—
Jason P. Frank,
Vulture,
20 Mar. 2026
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Mexican filmmaker Jonás Cuarón, now on his fourth feature, has settled into an ecstatic style that feels naturally torn from his father’s cloth, but with a signature stamp of his own on border-crossing stories.—
Ryan Lattanzio,
IndieWire,
19 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Liu’s jacket—worn open over a white crewneck tee—featured a breast pocket bearing the house’s telltale LV monogram.—
Hannah Jackson,
Vogue,
10 Mar. 2026
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Philipp Plein played with crocodile prints, monogram logos and crystals across the men’s denim range.—
Angela Velasquez,
Sourcing Journal,
9 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Besides Wukong, the new business group — which will focus on developing and applying AI tokens — will oversee existing Alibaba units Tongyi Laboratory, MaaS Business Line, Qwen and AI Innovation, and will be led by Alibaba CEO Eddie Wu.—
Matthew Chin,
CNBC,
17 Mar. 2026
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Disagreements bubbled up about everything from ethical-use cases to whether Bitcoin’s ecosystem should expand to include new tokens.—
Clara Molot,
Vanity Fair,
17 Mar. 2026
Noun
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That man did not have any insignia identifying him as an ICE agent.—
Lauren Victory,
CBS News,
23 Mar. 2026
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The latest to take up an insignia is Nicole Kidman, star of Prime Video’s new eight-part Patricia Cornwell adaptation, Scarpetta.—
Graham Hillard,
The Washington Examiner,
20 Mar. 2026
Noun
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The more subtle navy blue jersey has a repeating star pattern with red piping that wraps from the shoulders to the side, a metallic silver USA crest and a matching Nike swoosh.—
Kelly McCarthy,
ABC News,
16 Mar. 2026
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All due respect to the 1930 semifinalists and 1934/1950 participants, but kit culture truly didn’t take off until more recent times, and the earliest jerseys were nothing more than a plain shirt with a crest in the center, anyway.—
Avi Creditor,
New York Times,
16 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Sidewalks, restaurants, hotels and coffee shops were packed with technology industry workers draped in the bright green badge lanyards from the five-day event.—
Ethan Baron,
Mercury News,
21 Mar. 2026
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The people who get the most out of it — badge or not — are the ones willing to follow a tip, wait something out or pivot quickly when plans fall through.—
Ana Gutierrez,
Austin American Statesman,
20 Mar. 2026
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“Colophon.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/colophon. Accessed 24 Mar. 2026.
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