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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for postscript
Noun
  • In a moving epilogue to the story, Shoval returns to Berlin next week in the company of David and Ariel Cunio and their families for a screening of the new version.
    Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 11 Feb. 2026
  • In 2024, the Reader lost close to a half million dollars and started 2025 by cutting staff and its $4 million budget, seemingly on the verge of its epilogue.
    Robert Channick, Chicago Tribune, 30 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • The verdict put a coda on a long-running legal saga that raised questions about safety standards at training sessions for police officers.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 19 Feb. 2026
  • The poster is honored with a coda.
    Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 16 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • Quick recovery after extinction Interestingly, the fossil identification suggests that even in the immediate, volatile aftermath of a global catastrophe, these creatures were not isolated.
    Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 23 Feb. 2026
  • Somewhere along the line, perhaps in an attempt to comprehend the incomprehensible, or to put a cap on the devastation that accompanies loss, the word closure attached itself to the shocking aftermath of death, particularly unexpected and catastrophic death.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 23 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • For a notorious 2006 exhibition at Maureen Paley in London, Violette took the anticlimax of belatedness as his subject, engineering a spectacle of frustrated anticipation.
    Rachel Wetzler, Artforum, 1 Feb. 2026
  • In each of these hunts, the anticlimax of the stalk is tempered by awe at the animal’s anatomy.
    Andrew McKean, Outdoor Life, 11 Dec. 2025

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“Postscript.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/postscript. Accessed 24 Feb. 2026.

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