valedictory
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The length and detail in his valedictory statement suggests this was in the pipeline for a day or two but there's no word on why he has taken this decision.
From BBC ● Jun. 28, 2026
Conservative lawyers and pundits marked the occasion by publishing laudatory articles that had, to me, a distinctly valedictory feel to them.
From Slate ● Feb. 13, 2026
But as he noted ruefully in a valedictory speech last month, Americans may recognize the full benefits of those laws only once he’s out of office.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 6, 2025
McConnell spoke from the Senate floor in somber, valedictory tones, but he left open the possibility that he might seek another term, declaring at one point: “I’m not going anywhere anytime soon.”
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 29, 2024
There was shuffling and rustling around me, then Henry Reed was giving his valedictory address, “To Be or Not to Be.”
From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou
She stood all of 5 feet 4 inches, not counting the white stiletto heels, on the podium in the House television studio Thursday for one of her many valedictories.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 2, 2022
Heretofore best known for Moonchildren and the screenplay of Hair, both valedictories to the '60s, Weller looks back to his adolescence, a decade earlier, in Spoils of War.
From Time Magazine Archive
Instead there were eulogies and valedictories because Speaker Gillet was leaving to join the Senate.
From Time Magazine Archive
Two thousand years ago man's manner of dying was profoundly changed by the greatest of valedictories: "Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit."
From Time Magazine Archive
On the 4th of February Mr. Slidell and Mr. Benjamin delivered their valedictories as senators from Louisiana.
From Twenty Years of Congress, Vol. 1 From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860 by James Gillespie Blaine
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