postscript

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Recent Examples of postscript But his impressive catch-up sprint behind Gibson will be a postscript to this highlight. Steve Buckley, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2025 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 See All Example Sentences for postscript
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Noun
  • This show used to be jagged and messy and unpredictable, a true satire of superhero stories, but this epilogue wouldn’t feel out of place in a Marvel movie.
    Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 20 May 2026
  • After finishing the 44-year-old Carano with a ferocity that evoked her famous heyday, the 39-year-old Rousey reaffirmed that this was only the epilogue on her historic MMA career.
    CBS News, CBS News, 17 May 2026
Noun
  • Those are the celebrated opening lines of the first part of Howl’s three parts and its footnoted coda, with that initial sentence running-on for seventy-eight frenetic lines.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 3 June 2026
  • Zendaya and Domingo do great, resonant work, but even their empathetic portraits of suffering people can’t make this strange coda cohere.
    Alison Herman, Variety, 1 June 2026
Noun
  • Photos from the local information office in General Santos City, which has about 720,000 people, showed convenience stores and buildings crumbling in the aftermath of the quake.
    Kathleen Magramo, CNN Money, 8 June 2026
  • Variations in measurements by different agencies are common in the immediate aftermath of an earthquake.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 8 June 2026
Noun
  • That anticlimax proved enduring motivation for son Clark, now the chairman of the Chiefs.
    Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 15 May 2026
  • Clark’s final line (20 points on 7-of-18 shooting, seven assists, five turnovers) and the final score made for a bit of an anticlimax.
    Brian Hamilton, New York Times, 9 May 2026

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