coda

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The Ayers saga was a perfect coda to the Bush Years, except that what's interesting about the Bush Years is once you start trying to decode them - once you start trying to figure out what the hell happened to this country in the eight years George W. Bush was president - you see that the coda was already there, in the kernel.

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  1. noun Music The concluding passage of a movement or composition.
  2. noun A conclusion or closing part of a statement.

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  • And in music, the concluding or closing part of a movement or composition is called a coda.
  • Loved the coda, as we learn that the Karate Kid wasn't the only movie where Barney rooted for the "wrong" side: he was cheering for Hans Gruber (who "died hard," so clearly he was the lead character in Die Hard), the "teacher in charge of detention" in The Breakfast Club —  Cultural Learnings
  • The coda is the sense of well-being that floods the body after coffee is swallowed: —  North Coast Journal Comments
  • The director also serves up a couple of those deliciously off-kilter obscurities that have come to be his musical trademark as a coda: Eddie Beram's thumping "Riot in Thunder Alley" and April March's infectious ditz-pop take on Serge Gainsbourg's loopy "Chick Habit." —  Amazon Online News and Classifieds
  • For a medium with a white wavenumber spectrum of velocity fluctuations, the coda is higher frequency than the initial pulse. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
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  1. Italian, from Latin cauda, tail.

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  1. Italian (diminutive codetta), from Latin coda, later spelling of cauda, tail: see cauda and queue.
 

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