coda

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Recent Examples of coda In a 26-minute coda, which opened with a six-month time jump… ▲ Hapless Choi was released from prison after a six-month stint (for breaking into super-sus sea captain Park’s home) and reunited with his funny li’l buddy as well as (former) police detective Jun-ho (Wi Ha-jun). Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 27 June 2025 There’s a little coda at the end of the episode where Kyle goes over to Erika’s house to talk about the verdict against her ex-husband Tom. Brian Moylan, Vulture, 25 Mar. 2025 Apart from a brief coda, the rest of the episode takes the form of five vignettes, each set a year or two apart. Keith Phipps, Vulture, 19 May 2025 The stakes escalate with a mordant velocity reminiscent of Park Chan-wook’s revenge sagas, a point of reference that continues through the darkly funny — and patently absurd — coda that Aster tacks on to the end of his film’s pulse-pounding final shootout. David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 16 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for coda
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Noun
  • The original Steven Universe aired for five seasons (2013–2019) on Cartoon Network, eventually spawning a feature-length movie (2019’s Steven Universe: The Movie) as well as a 20-episode epilogue series (Steven Universe Future) that same year.
    Andy Swift, TVLine, 11 June 2025
  • Though its epilogue shows how much the Front Man came to sympathize with Gi-hun’s perspective—that people are worth saving—Squid Game ends with one more surprise to highlight the tournament’s savagery.
    Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 27 June 2025
Noun
  • The event is led by Bob Lundy and Elizabeth Yahn Williams with preludes and postludes of pianist Andrew Wong and assisted by artist Marion Wong, illustrator of the HAÏKU for an Artist series.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 July 2019
  • The dance now continues and switches gears as sound bites of Ailey and of Mr. Harris present a postlude suggesting them in conversation.
    Robert Greskovic, WSJ, 12 Dec. 2018
Noun
  • Why Did Susie and Clayton break up after The Bachelor? Susie and Clayton announced their split in September 2022, six months after The Bachelor Season 26 finale aired.
    Jason Pham, StyleCaster, 15 July 2025
  • In the season 1 finale, the charge nurse was shown packing up her personal belongings on her desk after having been assaulted by a patient and thrown into the chaos of treating victims of a mass shooting.
    Julia Moore, People.com, 15 July 2025
Noun
  • Reviewed: Instead of a Letter by Diana Athill, with an afterword by Lena Dunham New York Review Books, 232 pp., $16.95 (paper) Vivian Gornick Vivian Gornick is the author, most recently, of Taking a Long Look: Essays on Culture, Literature, and Feminism in Our Time.
    Vivian Gornick, The New York Review of Books, 27 Feb. 2025
  • As part of his daily routine, Combs, 55, is woken up for breakfast at 7 a.m. and afterwords has time to exercise in a room with yoga mats and a small basketball hoop, or to hang in a communal space with a ping-pong table and a TV.
    Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 15 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The Brazil international only had surgery to remove his appendix 13 days earlier, making a remarkable recovery and immediately getting back into action.
    Adam Digby, Forbes.com, 10 May 2025
  • Believed to be made from a sheep’s appendix, the prophylactic dates back to 1830 and is likely a souvenir from a brothel, according to a statement from the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam on Tuesday.
    Jack Guy, CNN Money, 3 June 2025

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