postscript
noun
post·script
ˈpōs(t)-ˌskript 
: a note or series of notes appended to a completed letter, article, or book
Examples of postscript in a Sentence
In a postscript to her letter, she promised to write again soon.
An interesting postscript to the story is that the two people involved later got married.
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Woman of the Hour acknowledges in a postscript that survivors and other private citizens had reported Alcala to law enforcement for a decade, but this after-the-fact treatment almost downplays the sheer volume of his previous crimes.
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Laura Bradley, Vulture, 18 Oct. 2024
Synnott wrote about the ordeal in the book’s postscript, and published a lengthy essay about the revelation on Salon.com
China has never acknowledged that its climbing teams found Irvine or Mallory.
—Frederick Dreier, Outside Online, 11 Oct. 2024
The Falklands War might form a small postscript in more recent volumes; but with the handover of Hong Kong to China in 1997, there seems no more empire to meaningfully speak of.
—Balaji Ravichandran, Washington Post, 12 June 2024
With both women pledging their support to Trump, the fight seemed less a proxy for the party’s feelings about the former president than a postscript to the bitter 2022 Republican primary for U.S. Senate.
—Mark Pazniokas, Hartford Courant, 29 May 2024
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Laura Bradley, Vulture, 18 Oct. 2024
Synnott wrote about the ordeal in the book’s postscript, and published a lengthy essay about the revelation on Salon.com
China has never acknowledged that its climbing teams found Irvine or Mallory.
—Frederick Dreier, Outside Online, 11 Oct. 2024
The Falklands War might form a small postscript in more recent volumes; but with the handover of Hong Kong to China in 1997, there seems no more empire to meaningfully speak of.
—Balaji Ravichandran, Washington Post, 12 June 2024
With both women pledging their support to Trump, the fight seemed less a proxy for the party’s feelings about the former president than a postscript to the bitter 2022 Republican primary for U.S. Senate.
—Mark Pazniokas, Hartford Courant, 29 May 2024
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postscript
noun
post·script
ˈpō(s)-ˌskript
: a note or series of notes added at the end of a letter, article, or book
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