valediction
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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
The standard bearers of SoCal’s punk scene for more than five decades promised they’d hang it up with “Smoke & Fiction,” a compelling valediction of an LP released this year.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 24, 2024
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
But these performances are, in fact, deeply entrenched in Coltrane’s moment: He’s issuing a warm valediction to his old catalog, full of his characteristic seriousness and serenity, before charging even further ahead.
From New York Times • Sep. 25, 2019
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
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Things Fall Apart
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Novel Study: Brave New World, Chapters 13–18
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Atonement
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