afterword
Example Sentences
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You also write in the afterword about leaving Gaza and going to Lebanon, only to find the war following you there.
From Slate • Sep. 22, 2025
As critic Gary Scharnhorst writes in an afterword to a recent edition of this classic: “The riposte to ‘it can’t happen here’ is ‘it already has.”
From Salon • May 17, 2025
“Goldenseal‘s” premise is based, Hummel writes in her afterword, on Sándor Márai’s “Embers,” which similarly follows two men meeting four decades after an event that tore their friendship apart.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 4, 2024
Scherzer faced hitters on Friday in a workout the day before Game 1, but he said afterword he’d need to see how his body recovers.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 7, 2023
Michael Frayn, in an afterword to his play Copenhagen, notes that several words in German–Unsicherheit, Unschärfe, Unbestimmtheit–have been used by various translators, but that none quite equates to the English uncertainty.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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