postscript
noun
post·script
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Definition of postscript
: 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.
Recent Examples on the Web
There’s an interesting postscript to McDonald’s story. — oregonlive, "Bad blood, betrayal turns L.A. coach into Nike whistleblower," 7 Sep. 2019 In the postscript to the Stranger Things Season 3 finale, we are treated to a bittersweet voiceover of Hopper’s emotional letter to Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown), who will ship out of town to live with the Byers in her new life without him. — Ashley Hoffman, Time, "People Are Demanding Justice for the Major Stranger Things Character Who Met an Unfortunate Fate," 5 July 2019 The film's postscript suggests, by the footballer's standards, a journey has been taken in recent years. — Thomas Page, CNN, "Sex, drugs and soccer: Diego Maradona film shines light on Napoli years," 12 June 2019 There is a fleeting moment in the last episode, barely a postscript, that reveals that the nonprofit The Innocence Project freed another man wrongfully imprisoned in Ada. — Taylor Antrim, Vogue, "Is the True-Crime Fever Breaking? Watching Netflix’s John Grisham Documentary The Innocent Man," 14 Dec. 2018 This article is based on dozens of interviews and fresh research since the beginning of 2018, a chapter-length postscript to my book Media Madness: Donald Trump, The Press and The War Over the Truth. — Howard Kurtz, Fox News, "Behind the Hostility: How Trump and the media descended to mutual disgust," 23 July 2018 Booked and routed by UTA's Cheryl Paglierani, this week's sold-out back-to-back concerts at the Bowl made for an interesting postscript for a relationship that started as a chance run-in at SXSW in 2015. — Dave Brooks, Billboard, "Spotlight: Post Malone's Agent, Cheryl Paglierani of UTA, On Developing a Genre-Crossing Headliner 'From the Ground Up'," 29 June 2018 The mudslides mark the cruel postscript to the Thomas Fire, which burned for much of December to become the largest wildfire by area in California history. — Anchorage Daily News, "‘Like a WWI battlefield’: Death toll rises as mudslides wipe away homes in fire-ravaged Southern California," 11 Jan. 2018 The postscript to this story, of course, is the inevitable return to real life. — Annabelle Dunne, Vogue, "I Took 30 Days Off From My Job, Family, and Cell Phone—Here’s What Happened," 17 June 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'postscript.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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More Definitions for postscript
postscript
noun
English Language Learners Definition of postscript
: a note or series of notes added at the end of a letter, article, or book
: an additional fact or piece of information about a story that occurs after the main part
See the full definition for postscript in the English Language Learners Dictionary
postscript
noun
post·script
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Kids Definition of postscript
: a note added at the end of a letter, article, or book