epilogue

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Recent Examples of epilogue They even get married in the epilogue. Bethy Squires, Vulture, 4 Sep. 2025 The epilogue reveals that Conrad has waited two years before sending Belly a handwritten letter. Dina Kaur, AZCentral.com, 3 Sep. 2025 Season 1 exhausted the events of King's novel, even reworking material from its epilogue into the main action of the story, so now the team will chart a new path for these characters, which will involve expanding on elements from the novel. EW.com, 31 Aug. 2025 But the movie makes a definite choice not to answer them, even in a big-twist epilogue five years later. David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 29 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for epilogue
Recent Examples of Synonyms for epilogue
Noun
  • Freakier Friday, the two-decades-in-the-making sequel to 2003’s Freaky Friday, reunites Lohan with Jamie Lee Curtis as her mom Tess and introduces a double-body-swap plot line that sees Lohan switching places with Butters as her teen daughter.
    Katie Atkinson, Billboard, 2 Oct. 2025
  • The sequel isn't as good, but if that scratchy footage — or the demon Bughuul — freaked you out on the first round, there's plenty more on display here.
    Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 2 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The following sequence, from the Wizards’ season finale in Miami, illustrates Sarr’s abilities to protect the rim, handle the ball in the open court and pass.
    Josh Robbins, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Joanna, 47, also serves as the finale's guest judge.
    Ana Calderone, PEOPLE, 6 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • With the ending of placements at the Civic and city-funded rooms in other CoLEAD shelters, safety ambassadors who were paid to quell the violence on Third Avenue turned to other shelter organizations.
    Ashley Hiruko, ProPublica, 6 Oct. 2025
  • Safdie only made slight changes to the ending, like adding a conversation Kerr has with a doctor after the loss.
    Sydney Bucksbaum, Entertainment Weekly, 5 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Gein was found guilty of murder, but in a follow-up proceeding was ruled to be not guilty — again by reason of insanity.
    JR Radcliffe, USA Today, 4 Oct. 2025
  • The Health Department gives restaurants with low scores a chance to correct issues, sometimes performing follow-up inspections the same day.
    Gabrielle Chenault, Nashville Tennessean, 3 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Brendan McDermid | Reuters Stocks registered gains for September and the third quarter, with the Dow ending yesterday's session at an all-time closing high.
    Alex Harring, CNBC, 1 Oct. 2025
  • The closing of the more than 50-year-old plant in Shelby was not a surprise as Solero announced its 18- to 24-month consolidation plan last November, Chris Byrd, Solero’s senior vice president of global human resources said in a statement Tuesday to The Charlotte Observer.
    Charlotte Observer, Charlotte Observer, 30 Sep. 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
  • In the life of a Witch, there is no ‘after’ in the ‘ever after’ of a Witch there is no ‘happily;’ in the story of a Witch, there is no afterword.
    Jason Pham, StyleCaster, 28 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Whether slow or fast, the AI endgame is all the same.
    Saahil Desai, The Atlantic, 2 Oct. 2025
  • With the mothership Witcher series coming to an end after two more seasons, the endgame is coming into focus.
    Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 26 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Near the end of the day, Haag gathered her students for their usual wrap-up discussion.
    Jessica Winter, New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2025
  • As the year winds down, many leaders shift their focus to holiday campaigns, budget wrap-ups or end-of-year reporting.
    Rolling Stone Culture Council, Rolling Stone, 29 Sep. 2025

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“Epilogue.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/epilogue. Accessed 7 Oct. 2025.

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