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Recent Examples of flashback
The eight-episode series opens with a flashback to Sherlock’s childhood, revealing the loss of his sister Beatrice.
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Emily Zemler, Los Angeles Times, 4 Mar. 2026
The answer may come — in a roundabout way — in a story Ser Arlan of Pennytree tells in that flashback, minutes before his death.
—Noel Murray, Vulture, 23 Feb. 2026
The fourth inning of Saturday’s Cactus League game between the Texas Rangers and Chicago Cubs was a flashback episode.
—Shawn McFarland, Dallas Morning News, 21 Feb. 2026
Beloved opens in Ohio in 1873, a decade after Emancipation, though half of the novel is a flashback to life on a plantation in Kentucky in the 1850s.
—Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 17 Feb. 2026
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Emily Zemler, Los Angeles Times, 4 Mar. 2026
The answer may come — in a roundabout way — in a story Ser Arlan of Pennytree tells in that flashback, minutes before his death.
—Noel Murray, Vulture, 23 Feb. 2026
The fourth inning of Saturday’s Cactus League game between the Texas Rangers and Chicago Cubs was a flashback episode.
—Shawn McFarland, Dallas Morning News, 21 Feb. 2026
Beloved opens in Ohio in 1873, a decade after Emancipation, though half of the novel is a flashback to life on a plantation in Kentucky in the 1850s.
—Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 17 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for flashback
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That day, according to both Hall’s recollection and her visit records, the sonographer recorded the pregnancy as intrauterine.—
Emily Brindley
Health Reporter,
Dallas Morning News,
27 Mar. 2026
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For some, the recollection remains too painful.—
Laura Bauer,
Kansas City Star,
26 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Give me raiders of the lost past, any day, and forgive them their lack of footnotes.—
Anthony Lane,
New Yorker,
22 Mar. 2026
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Sometimes the most interesting engineering advances start from an idea everyone else scrolled past.—
Omar Kardoudi
March 22,
New Atlas,
22 Mar. 2026
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Later, settle in for a pint at Teach Ósta, the lone pub, where conversations drift easily from myth to weather to memory.—
Condé Nast Traveler,
Condé Nast Traveler,
25 Mar. 2026
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In some communities, a generation has grown up without any memory of pristine water or air — and given their lack of education, little reason to mourn it.—
Noo Saro-Wiwa,
The Dial,
24 Mar. 2026
Noun
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In the nightmare scenario that kicks off Transcription, the disabling of the narrator’s phone—that ingenious receptacle for distraction, and discomfort, and crap—sets in motion a series of observations and reminiscences that prod the narrator’s unconscious, bringing the novel into being.—
Hannah Gold,
Harpers Magazine,
24 Mar. 2026
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The novel, which jumps around in time from spectral reminiscences of the nineteenth century to the late 1980s and early 1990s and into the twenty-first century, follows the members of a Brooklyn family attempting to find stability while struggling with their strange attunement to the dead.—
Omari Weekes,
The New York Review of Books,
19 Mar. 2026
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Porter promised a return to yesteryear in a speech that was a far cry from old-time political rhetoric.—
George Skelton,
Mercury News,
14 Mar. 2026
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Porter promised a return to yesteryear in a speech that was a far cry from old-time political rhetoric.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
9 Mar. 2026
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Posters and whiteboards filled the room, including several that called for the removal of district superintendent Nancy Albarrán and a recall vote for board members.—
Molly Gibbs,
Mercury News,
27 Mar. 2026
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Milk from Raw Farm was tied to dozens of salmonella cases in 2024, and the company did issue a voluntary recall.—
Erika Edwards,
NBC news,
27 Mar. 2026
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The win is the 455th of Bobrovsky’s career, which breaks a tie with Curtis Joseph for the seventh-most in NHL history.—
Jordan McPherson,
Miami Herald,
25 Mar. 2026
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Grab a sausage roll at O’Flynn’s Gourmet Sausage Company, or settle upstairs at Farmgate Café, where dishes come with a side of Irish food history—tripe and drisheen, included.—
Condé Nast Traveler,
Condé Nast Traveler,
25 Mar. 2026
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The strikes, which included hits on areas in western Ukraine far from the front lines, are a stark reminder that Moscow's war continues even as Western officials are consumed with the conflict in the Middle East.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
26 Mar. 2026
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Closed schools across the Gulf are a reminder that when conflicts escalate, children are the first to pay the price, the UN’s secretary general told the Security Council earlier this month, Arab News reported.—
Kelsey Warner,
semafor.com,
25 Mar. 2026
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