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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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The medical providers at Children’s Health, according to Wessinger’s recollection and Jordan’s medical records, said that surgery was a success.—
Emily Brindley
Health Reporter,
Dallas Morning News,
19 Mar. 2026
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There is a recollection about how someone was brought in behind the young women’s back to tune the instruments, only to have to de-tune them back to what the ladies were used to when the subsequent tone sounded completely foreign to their ears.—
Chris Willman,
Variety,
15 Mar. 2026
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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
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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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The recall affects Children's Ibuprofen Oral Suspension, a pain reliever that comes in liquid form.—
Mary Cunningham,
CBS News,
20 Mar. 2026
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Forwards Jarrod Bowen and Dominic Solanke, of West Ham United and Tottenham Hotspur, have earned recalls.—
David Ornstein,
New York Times,
20 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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Morath’s letter to superintendents was simply a reminder of existing policy, according to the motion.—
Keri Heath,
Austin American Statesman,
18 Mar. 2026
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But in the pursuit of a quicker and more capable M2, the CS also serves as a reminder that there are some elements of the driving experience that can’t be easily quantified on a spec sheet.—
Bradley Iger,
Robb Report,
18 Mar. 2026
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