epilogue

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Recent Examples of epilogue In the novel’s epilogue, Professor Pieixoto is speculating about the alternative identities of the woman who made the recordings. Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 27 May 2025 Instead, the book’s epilogue jumps ahead to 2195 and reveals that the main narrative of the novel is a transcription of audio tapes discovered long after the fall of Gilead that are being presented in an academic setting. Lissete Lanuza Sáenz, StyleCaster, 9 Apr. 2025 There’s a photo epilogue of the real soldiers, and many of their faces are blurred. Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 7 Apr. 2025 The trailer also teases a larger role for Quynh (Veronica Ngô), the immortal doomed to eternal drowning for witchcraft, who was previously rescued from an Iron Maiden at the bottom of the ocean in the first film's epilogue. EW.com, 8 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for epilogue
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Noun
  • In this sequel, Sam has published her first novel to critical acclaim, but the Bunnies aren’t happy with the way they’ve been portrayed.
    Literary Hub July 1, Literary Hub, 1 July 2025
  • Entertainment Weekly has exclusively learned that the Entourage star will not be in the sequel, two sources familiar with the situation reveal.
    EW.com, EW.com, 30 June 2025
Noun
  • In the second film's big finale, the main trio Phil (Bradley Cooper), Alan (Galifianakis), and Stu (Helms) ride a giant speedboat to Stu's wedding.
    Daysia Tolentino, EW.com, 5 July 2025
  • Metallica was the penultimate band to perform before the Osbourne/Black Sabbath finale performances.
    Althea Legaspi, Rolling Stone, 5 July 2025
Noun
  • That ending is the most important scene and is very much in direct contact with the overarching theme that penetrates all three seasons.
    Patrick Brzeski, HollywoodReporter, 8 July 2025
  • In addition, the Squid Game Season 3 ending certainly seems to allude to the format going international.
    Griff Griffin, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 July 2025
Noun
  • Gerard Johnstone returned to write and direct the follow-up film, which brings back the murderous artificial intelligence doll known as M3GAN (short for Model 3 Generative Android) as she’s rebooted with advanced upgrades to stop a dangerous humanoid military robot.
    Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 1 July 2025
  • That spring will see the arrival of the first BTS studio album since Be, which arrived in 2020, as well as the follow-up to their Permission to Dance On Stage Tour.
    Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 1 July 2025
Noun
  • The storm delivered around two months' worth of rain to Chapel Hill, Durham, and the surrounding area, closing roads, stranding residents and causing wide flooding.
    Hannah Parry Amanda Castro, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 July 2025
  • The Clinton Township closing leaves the Royal Oak Bar Louie location at 510 S. Main St., between Fifth and Sixth streets, as the only Michigan location open.
    Susan Selasky, Freep.com, 7 July 2025
Noun
  • Reviewed: Instead of a Letter by Diana Athill, with an afterword by Lena Dunham New York Review Books, 232 pp., $16.95 (paper) Vivian Gornick Vivian Gornick is the author, most recently, of Taking a Long Look: Essays on Culture, Literature, and Feminism in Our Time.
    Vivian Gornick, The New York Review of Books, 27 Feb. 2025
  • 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
Noun
  • Trump has struggled to find an endgame to the wars in Ukraine and Gaza, which show no signs of abating.
    Aamer Madhani, Los Angeles Times, 15 June 2025
  • Trump has struggled to find an endgame to either of those conflicts and to make good on two of his biggest foreign policy campaign promises.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 14 June 2025
Noun
  • That this wrap-up happens on the stoop of an apartment building provides a nice callback to Past Lives.
    David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 9 June 2025
  • After about an hour delay, fans were allowed back in for the wrap-up concert featuring Thundercat.
    Robert A. Cronkleton, Kansas City Star, 27 May 2025

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