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Recent Examples of afterimageFire to create an afterimage of yourself that projects a beam of light in Valorant.—Mike Stubbs, Forbes, 2 Mar. 2025 The digital detectors used by the camera suffered from an issue called quantum efficiency hysteresis, or QEH—when WF/PC took an image of a bright object, there was an afterimage left behind that would mess up later observations.—Phil Plait, Scientific American, 16 Jan. 2025 In addition to reversing the color of an image, afterimages can convince your brain that an object has changed in shape or size.—Vanessa Armstrong, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Oct. 2024 But then the mystery more or less fades from view, to be replaced by another that comes and goes in a flash but lingers like an afterimage.—Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 24 Oct. 2024 See All Example Sentences for afterimage
Families are turning dinner into an activity by using pizza dough or premade crusts to mold fun, spooky shapes, like ghosts, pumpkins, and bats, before topping them with sauce, cheese, and all their favorite fixings.
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Elizabeth Fogarty,
Better Homes & Gardens,
18 Oct. 2025
The Chicago Tribune reported that the empty lot where Gacy's house once stood became a tourist attraction for true crime fans and ghost hunters in the 1980s.
Obama’s 2015 appearance is central to WTF’s mythology and to podcasting lore in general, so bringing him back provides a neat poetic echo to end the show.
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Nicholas Quah,
Vulture,
15 Oct. 2025
Worries are particularly high about companies in the artificial-intelligence industry, where pessimists see echoes of the 2000 dot-com bubble that imploded.
Each slab operates like a sedimentary layer of personal grief, a vestige of vast killing fields.
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Jerry Saltz,
Vulture,
10 Oct. 2025
The comeback began with Garrett Whitlock, the last vestige of the pitching staff from Boston’s most recent playoff run, taking the mound for the eighth inning.
This isn’t the first time in recent years that the University of Münster has facilitated the return of historical artifacts to Greece.
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Toria Sheffield,
PEOPLE,
18 Oct. 2025
The landowner, who happened to be an avid collector of Native American artifacts, retrieved the skull and promptly reported the find to Chief Deputy Dan Becker on June 2, 2025.
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