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epilogue

[ep-uh-lawg, -log] / ˈɛp əˌlɔg, -ˌlɒg /


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Ms. Hoyer consigns Weirich’s wartime experiences to an epilogue.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

Some arias are cut; Donna Elvira’s Act 2 “Mi tradì” replaces her Act 1 “Ah, fuggi il traditor,” and there is no moralizing epilogue after the Don goes to hell.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026

And you can expect more such details to surface as we finally get the Succession epilogue its fans have pined for, with a Tom Wambsgans type in charge.

From Slate ● Feb. 4, 2026

But later, in a lengthy epilogue scene, Mike Wheeler takes us down another possibility - Eleven using Kali's illusion powers to make it seem as though she died before making a grand escape.

From BBC ● Jan. 1, 2026

For the epilogue, he writes a poem, modeled after one of Okeoma’s poems.

From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

There are eight books in the series, plus a book of epilogues with a short story called “The Bridgertons: Happily Ever After.”

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 6, 2022

“Seeing all the couples come together for Nochebuena at the end was cathartic in a way few epilogues can achieve.”

From New York Times ● Dec. 23, 2021

Amid all the suffering and violence, you’ll often find the rest of us in the footnotes, the appendices, and the epilogues.

From The New Yorker ● Jul. 22, 2019

Save for a protracted, comic series of text-on-screen epilogues, Egerton’s John—prompted by years of abuse, granted—is mostly depicted as having been, offstage, a childish, mean, graceless jerk.

From Slate ● May 31, 2019

In his epilogues to Phædra and to Lucius he is very happily facetious; but in the prologue before the queen, the pedant has found his way, with Minerva, Perseus, and Andromeda.

From The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes Volume the Eighth: The Lives of the Poets, Volume II by Samuel Johnson


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