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Saying goodbye to my work bestie feels like a piece of my heart is leaving. Thank you for being my rock, my sounding board, and my partner in crime. I'm beyond grateful for the memories we've created.
A valediction (derivation from Latin vale dicere, "to say farewell"), [1] parting phrase, or complimentary close in American English, [2] is an expression used to say farewell, especially a word or phrase used to end a letter or message, [3] [4] or a speech made at a farewell. [3] Valediction's counterpart is a greeting called a salutation.
The term is often used as a euphemism for "retirement speech," though it is broader in that it may include geographical or even biological conclusion. In the Classics, a term for a dignified and poetic farewell speech is apobaterion (ἀποβατήριον), standing opposed to the epibaterion, the corresponding speech made upon arrival. [1]
The speech was "a solemn moment in a decidedly unsolemn time", warning a nation "giddy with prosperity, infatuated with youth and glamour, and aiming increasingly for the easy life." [ 4 ] As we peer into society's future, we – you and I, and our government – must avoid the impulse to live only for today, plundering for our own ease and ...
At the end of Donald Trump's presidency, television networks left the mute button unused. “We're going to dip into this for as long as the president manages to tell the truth,” Scarborough said.
Watch Taylor Swift's Goodbye Speech at Eras Tour Kevin Winter/TAS24 - Getty Images It's the end of a literal era. By which we mean Taylor Swift wrapped up the Eras Tour after approximately one ...
The sixth-year quarterback was benched this week by head coach Brian Daboll in favor of Tommy DeVito, and before taking questions from reporters Jones read a prepared statement that sounded like a ...
"I shall have to ask leave to desist, when I am interrupted by so great an experiment as dying." [34]: 20 [71]: 195 — William Davenant, English poet and playwright (7 April 1668), setting aside the manuscript of a new poem "Far from well, yet far better than mine iniquities deserve." [11]: 109–110