to bookend
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5.4
- verb
- /ˈbʊkˌɛnd/
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- We started our presentation with an overview and bookended it with a summary of key points.
- bookended by two
- story bookended
It's this brief window of consciousness bookended by two eternities of nothing.
- It's this brief window of consciousness bookended by two eternities of nothing.
- It would have been two states bookending America with marriage equality.
- But both sides are actually, you could say, bookended by nonexistence.
- So your weekends, your weeks are bookended by the basement boys.
- So, yeah, I think, you know, to kind of bookend the, I have concerns over the online course world.
Examples
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By bookending their letters with such messages, scribes reinforce fairly broad religious beliefs in ways that would appeal to almost any Anabaptist reader, regardless of sect.
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It would have been two states bookending America with marriage equality.
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The Seattle years were bookended by the Boston years.
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So your weekends, your weeks are bookended by the basement boys.
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It's this brief window of consciousness bookended by two eternities of nothing.
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But that is what you get if you have a campaign which is, let's say, bookended by two election debates perhaps a fortnight apart.
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From 1995 (my first) through 2001 (his last), I shared his space, with each of our contributions bookending the central articles of this magazine.
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The album begins and ends with tidal waves of sound, bookending a deliberate and reserved center.
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The 1960s are bookended by the two most iconic events of the Space Race: Yuri Gagarin becoming the first person in space in 1961 and Neil Armstrong landing on the moon in 1969.
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The four-play, 75-yard drive was bookended by Woods' 31-yard grab and Nelson Agholor's 33-yard touchdown.
Blog text (26)
Surface Forms
Etymology
Bookend As a verb, bookend comes from the noun bookend; imagine two bookends around a group of things, so to bookend an event is to put items at the beginning and at the end to 'frame' what is in the middle.