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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

For his staging of the music from Prokofiev’s epilogue, Mr. Millepied makes much of the fluorescent light tubes that are part of Mr. Couture’s design.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 9, 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

A frustrating epilogue to their story is that the 586th Regiment was never awarded the honorary and elite title of Guards.

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein

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

“Seeing all the couples come together for Nochebuena at the end was cathartic in a way few epilogues can achieve.”

From New York Times ● Dec. 23, 2021

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

Amid all the suffering and violence, you’ll often find the rest of us in the footnotes, the appendices, and the epilogues.

From The New Yorker ● Jul. 22, 2019

On these occasions, the prologues and epilogues were written by Jane’s eldest brother, and some of them are very vigorous and amusing. 

From Memoir of Jane Austen by James Edward Austen-Leigh




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