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
And, as we learn in the heart-rending afterword by the author’s daughter Kayla Min Andrews, we almost didn’t get this one.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 15, 2024
McCormick’s story is further explained by John W. Troutman, the editor of “Biography of a Phantom,” in a preface and afterword.
From New York Times • Apr. 17, 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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