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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.
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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
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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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for postscript
Noun
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While Houston’s mention was more of an epilogue than a dissertation on the state of the room, the preseason star is firmly part of the pass rush story through five weeks.—
Nick Harris,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
6 Oct. 2025
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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
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Reid’s score alternates between rhapsody and pandemonium, with the latter winning out in a riotous coda.—
Alex Ross,
New Yorker,
6 Oct. 2025
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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
Noun
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What affected me most in Lahiri’s story was the sense of time passing, the way our obsessions seem meaningless in the aftermath of tragic events (or, rather, from the larger vantage point of a life).—
Cressida Leyshon,
New Yorker,
12 Oct. 2025
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In the aftermath, Jones decided the best way to take care of herself was to step away from the public eye.—
Jason Jones,
New York Times,
12 Oct. 2025
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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
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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 15 Oct. 2025.
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