Bookend

Definitions

1. A heavy object or moveable support placed at one or both ends of a row of books for the purpose of keeping them upright.
2. Something that comes before, after, or at both sides of something else.
   figuratively

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Examples

“The cabinet minister's appearance served as something of a bookend to her grilling by the Home Affairs select⟳ committee in April this year[…]”

“In both Episode 1 and Episode 9, which serve⟳ as bookends, Burns found fascinating footage of a 1938 event at which President Franklin Roosevelt spoke to living veterans who wore the Blue and the Gray; […]”

“[…] radio techniques, including the use⟳ of sound⟳ montage and the placement of musical "bookends" at the beginning and end⟳ of radio programs […]”

“And it seemed, perhaps fancifully, that those two moments had become⟳ the bookends of a generation and of a nation’s frayed sense⟳ of equilibrium.”

“In the factory, a colourful woodland of knitted trees points towards a collection of bookends commissioned from Scottish designers and inspired by the globetrotting travels in 1894 of Dundee Courier journalists Marie Imandt and Bessie Maxwell.”

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