postscript

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Recent Examples of postscript 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 These are pretty important, and in many cases the movie would feel unfinished without these cinematic postscripts. James Grebey, Vulture, 24 July 2025 In a last-minute postscript, Crozier, by then in command of the expedition, recorded the crew’s intention of leaving the following day for what is now known as Back River. Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 May 2025 Does Chris Kyle die in American Sniper? Kyle's death is mentioned in a postscript in American Sniper, but it's not shown onscreen. Randall Colburn, EW.com, 22 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for postscript
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Noun
  • Yet Lupino brings such intensity and anger to her performance that the film’s register shifts into something far darker — so dark, in fact, that a prologue and epilogue Jack Warner insisted be added to make the movie more glamorous focus on a suicide attempt!
    Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 25 Sep. 2025
  • The series eventually included a film as well as a limited series meant to be an epilogue.
    Mikelle Street, Them., 18 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • As the sweetly melodic ballad tapers, a gentle beat kicks in and Carey vocalizes words of religious praise over a syncopated coda for the last two minutes, her five-octave voice punctuating her patented melismatic style.
    Melissa Ruggieri, USA Today, 23 Sep. 2025
  • Stephen Daw: This, to me, feels like a coda for the Mayhem era, a little musical (and cinematic) motif to celebrate this particularly excellent album year that she’s found herself in.
    Katie Atkinson, Billboard, 16 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The fire set in the aftermath of the shooting grew to a five-alarm blaze that caused a partial collapse of the structure, according to law enforcement officials.
    Bill Hutchinson, ABC News, 28 Sep. 2025
  • The inquest is expected to consider some or all of the concerns that were raised at the time and reported by The Athletic in the immediate aftermath, with multiple eyewitnesses alleging failings in the care provided by Sheffield Wednesday and its medical services.
    Steve Madeley, New York Times, 28 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The anticlimax preemptively lowers the stakes of this new conflict, though Linklater makes for a gleefully sinister blank slate.
    Alison Herman, Variety, 15 Sep. 2025
  • This Is Spinal Tap was an almost-clinical study in anticlimax, in rock-and-roll humiliation.
    James Parker, The Atlantic, 12 Sep. 2025

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