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
  • Blooper reels, once common in comedy films, are fading from cinema partly due to the rise of dramatic post-credit epilogues and the shift from DVDs to streaming platforms, experts say.
    Brittney Melton, NPR, 30 Mar. 2026
  • Even in light of new information, Mark is not quite ready to pitch Netflix on an epilogue episode — not yet.
    Tony Maglio, HollywoodReporter, 26 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • The final shuttle flight served as a coda to the heady days of the 1960s and ‘70s.
    Michael Carrafiello, The Conversation, 16 Mar. 2026
  • Writing my memoir would be my coda, my truth.
    Elisabeth Garber-Paul, Rolling Stone, 14 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Two people are now dead in the aftermath of a head-on crash Saturday afternoon in Orion Township, the Oakland County Sheriff's Office said.
    Nick Lentz, CBS News, 13 Apr. 2026
  • The upswing suggests that the exhibition industry is beginning to recover from the devastating downturn that occurred in the aftermath of the pandemic when people got out of the habit of watching movies on the big screen and instead turned to Netflix and other streaming platforms.
    Samantha Masunaga, Los Angeles Times, 13 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • The sense of anticlimax is crushing.
    Alex Ross, New Yorker, 14 Mar. 2026
  • The lore around an alien cover-up could set expectations high for the new release—and, possibly, yield yet another anticlimax in the absence of clear evidence.
    Becky Ferreira, Wired News, 9 Mar. 2026

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