valedictory

But he says nothing about its posthumous Off Broadway production, in 2023, which played to packed houses and mixed reviews — not quite the valedictory Sondheim would have wanted.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 17, 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

Speaking in her valedictory speech, Mrs May said being an MP "is the best job in the world" despite what she called "its frustrations".

From BBC ● May 24, 2024

McCarthy noted during his valedictory press conference that he got a text message from a former opponent of one of the eight Republicans who voted against him, Rep. Nancy Mace of South Carolina.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 4, 2023

The story had its start four years earlier, in May of 1792, when Washington approached Madison to help him compose a valedictory address.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis

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

One by one, they took to the floor with prepared valedictories.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

As that seminal group's linchpin, Robertson wrote spooky, spunky and romantic valedictories to the mythic ghosts of American history: rounders and robbers, gamblers and wanderers, the proud, the humble and the haunted.

From Time Magazine Archive

Mississippi, Louisiana, South Carolina, Florida, Texas, and Arkansas followed in succession, with valedictories which seemed directed less to the convention than to the Union.

From Stephen A. Douglas A Study in American Politics by Allen Johnson