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Recent Examples of afterimage
Fire to create an afterimage of yourself that projects a beam of light in Valorant.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Judith Shulevitz,
The Atlantic,
24 Oct. 2024
See All Example Sentences for afterimage
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for afterimage
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There are legends of ghost sightings and spooky happenings on the dirt road, like the woman who reportedly wanders it in the dark, crying out for her children.
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The ghosts of 1982 Austrian coach Ralf Rangnick was asked multiple times at a news conference Friday outside of Arrowhead Stadium about that shocking game at the 1982 World Cup.
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All in all, a good meal that leaves no bitter aftertaste.
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There’s no strange aftertaste, no fishy flavor, and no texture issues.
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However long and tangled her rap sheet, Sugar sees her illuminatory potential through the grime and shadows of an unforgiving film-noir cityscape.
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Practically, states can adopt cooperation measures to curb the shadow fleet.
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There may be echoes of history on George’s first day.
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This gas absorbs that light and also pulses, with this secondary pulse serving as an echo of the first.
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Bartlett’s character is like a rock slab, a vestige of an ancient religion, brought to life in overlapping strips of muslin, linen, and leather in shades of dove, cream, gray, and pale blue, with his hood pulled tight around his face and his hands wrapped in mittens.
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Making Juneteenth a national holiday is the closest our country has gotten to acknowledging the truth about enslavement and its vestiges.
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Mattox wore a red Balmoral Park racetrack baseball cap to a Crete Area Historical Society meeting last week, dedicated to sharing memories and artifacts spanning the facility’s 100-year history.
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In the far north of the Roman Empire, this Egyptian-meets-Greek artifact was found, exhibiting just how far the mélange of cultures traveled.
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The victims of May 18 deserve more than our remembrance.
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Representatives for industry trade groups NetChoice and TechNet did not respond to emails requesting comment about the remembrance day or the call for changes to the federal law.
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“Afterimage.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/afterimage. Accessed 27 Jun. 2026.
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