postscript

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Recent Examples of postscript And there’s a little postscript. Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 12 Sep. 2025 Come to find out, Daniel has been quoting a sentence from the resulting column to audiences for 33 years, and I am honored to be a postscript to an addendum to a footnote of an incident with such impact. Neal Rubin, Freep.com, 6 Sep. 2025 In the new edition, Bauer found an unexpected postscript to the story, thanks to newer digital newspaper archives. Chris Foran, jsonline.com, 6 Aug. 2025 His finger jabs on the second-to-last page, at the postscript. Megan Spurrell, Condé Nast Traveler, 5 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for postscript
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Noun
  • To prove it, the writer-director Damian McCarthy opens his movie with the epilogue to Ohm’s latest book, a desert death trek with a Spanish treasure hunter (Austin Amelio) and his desperately thirsty child guide (Ezra Carlisle).
    Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 30 Apr. 2026
  • Another option would be for the sequel to simply pick back up in 1984, prior to the film's epilogue, and continue covering Jackson's life up until around 1992.
    Brendan Morrow, USA Today, 25 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Many of his later programs have been capped by a coda in which the tricks of the trade are laid bare—no trick being more vital than that of extreme patience, with camera operators waiting days, or even weeks, for the right cub, or pup, or fledgling, or froglet, to show up.
    Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 8 May 2026
  • And an unnecessary coda that comes after the curtain call never should have made it out of rehearsals.
    Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 1 May 2026
Noun
  • In the aftermath, Mad's sister, Annabel, becomes a recluse, and Mad struggles to keep the family's bar afloat as the sisters become the center of damaging gossip.
    Carly Tagen-Dye, PEOPLE, 11 May 2026
  • Los Angeles mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt shared a heartbreaking Mother’s Day tribute to his wife, Heidi Montag, by posting a video that features the devastating aftermath of the LA fires.
    Christina Dugan Ramirez, FOXNews.com, 11 May 2026
Noun
  • Clark’s final line (20 points on 7-of-18 shooting, seven assists, five turnovers) and the final score made for a bit of an anticlimax.
    Brian Hamilton, New York Times, 9 May 2026
  • The sense of anticlimax is crushing.
    Alex Ross, New Yorker, 14 Mar. 2026

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“Postscript.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/postscript. Accessed 13 May. 2026.

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