valediction

Example Sentences

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The service will end with the final commendation and valediction, marking the beginning of nine days of mourning for the Pope, the Catholic news agency reported.

From BBC • Apr. 22, 2025

What’s unclear is whether this is the valediction of that career, or something that propels him back into the presidential conversation going forward.

From Slate • Jan. 20, 2025

“Boom Times” is both a celebration of a prodigious talent and a valediction for a lost soul.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 21, 2023

As a young postdoctoral student, David McKay was in the audience at Rice University in September 1962 when JFK had given his famous "We choose to go to the Moon" valediction.

From Salon • Jun. 13, 2020

There were more prayers, a psalm, the Lord’s Prayer and another long one in which the falling tones of valediction gathered into a melancholy finality.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan