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
  • An epilogue sequence shows Lo has returned to work and written a story about the whole ordeal focused on Anne's contributions to cancer research.
    Megan McCluskey, Time, 10 Oct. 2025
  • In the epilogue, Edward kidnaps Bella.
    USA Today, USA Today, 10 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • That was followed by a shiny-happy coda, a significant time jump, and then the launch of a brand-new case involving a plot to assassinate the governor of California and/or POTUS.
    Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Maybe the purposefully ambiguous coda was concocted to prove some sort of Rashomon-style truth-is-subjective point.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 9 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • So how would Addison Barger handle the aftermath of his base-running mishap that ended Game 6?
    Fabian Ardaya, New York Times, 2 Nov. 2025
  • In the end, McGovern included clips from early morning airport chaos, rain on the Hawaiian beaches, the aftermath of a bloody lip and plenty of screaming and crying.
    Colson Thayer, PEOPLE, 31 Oct. 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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“Postscript.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/postscript. Accessed 4 Nov. 2025.

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