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
Haushofer’s 1963 novel, “The Wall,” was reissued by New Directions in 2022 with an afterword by Claire-Louise Bennett.
From Los Angeles Times • May 14, 2025
To fill in for the debate’s abysmal silences, here are a few quotes from the afterword about the ongoing carnage:
From Salon • Sep. 11, 2024
In the afterword to one of her most autobiographical novels, “starring sally j. freedman as herself,” Blume remembered being “curious, imaginative, a worrier” when she was a girl, qualities she clearly has retained.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 21, 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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