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epilogue

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


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Up All Night‘s” epilogue considers the post-pandemic remnants of the glamorous, somewhat gluttonous eves of yore and the effects that smartphones, social media and streaming have had on the art of going out.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 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

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

From BBC ● Nov. 14, 2025

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

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

The Elizabethan dramatists applied the name to a single character employed for the recitation of prologues or epilogues.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 3 "Chitral" to "Cincinnati" by Various




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