valediction
Example Sentences
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It’s all combining in a season of valediction for the eternal misfit whose life and career recently got the documentary treatment in “Let the Canary Sing” on Paramount+.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2025
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
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
Vocabulary lists containing valediction
Things Fall Apart
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Novel Study: Brave New World, Chapters 13–18
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Atonement
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