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epilogue

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


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The book’s epilogue, “Ten Lessons in Prediction,” focuses on the merits of avoiding prediction when possible, rather than how to use it better.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 21, 2026

In addition to the film’s dramatization of the fraught emergency call, Ben Hania included an epilogue documenting Hind’s heartbreaking fate.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 17, 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

The novel is divided into 15 books as well as an epilogue, which itself is split into two parts.

From BBC ● Nov. 14, 2025

A brilliant example of this occurs as the epilogue of Heinrich Biber’s devotional cycle of sixteen solo violin sonatas known as the ‘Rosary’ or ‘Mystery’ sonatas, composed in 1676.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

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

But this one isn’t quite up to the standards established by the Police Squad! epilogues, not least because Saturday Night Live didn’t bother to dress a chimpanzee up in a suit and tie:

From Slate ● Dec. 8, 2019

Some of the dead, such as Orion, “that huge hunter,” who keeps up his chase on the shadow world’s fields, undergo fates that seem like dim epilogues of their lives.

From The New Yorker ● Jan. 14, 2019

The show's double epilogues from last season's finale -- one introducing Elsa and one reintroducing the Magic Mirror and a revenge-minded Regina -- seem to have outlined the coming season.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2014

She excelled in the delivery of the risky prologues and epilogues which were the fashion, and the poet wrote for her some specially daring examples.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 6 "Groups, Theory of" to "Gwyniad" by Various


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