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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
Sarah Cracknell’s voice is tempered with a touch of honeyed grit, but has lost none of of its ability to convey the bittersweet aftertaste of romantic loss.
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Ernesto Lechner,
Rolling Stone,
8 Sep. 2025
The Glinda Good Berry, on the other hand, is sweet without much of a distinctive flavor, though there’s maybe a twinkle of strawberry in the aftertaste.
Street food tours through Gwangjang Market echo scenes of communal joy found in the film’s lighter moments.
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Emese Maczko,
Forbes.com,
11 Sep. 2025
As the seas warm, researchers have found that sound carries farther, and that rising acidity alters the very chemistry of how vibrations move through saltwater, reshaping the pathways of song and echo.
Big marquee filmmakers started coming into that space, because that was the only vestige for them.
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Anne Thompson,
IndieWire,
6 Sep. 2025
The tracks, gun-barrel straight, are some of the only working vestiges of the Cape-to-Cairo railway, the 19th century British imperial boondoggle that aimed to tie the continent together from Egypt to South Africa.
Its permanent collection includes more than 1,700 works of art, and the Price Gallery features over 300 artifacts.
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Gabi De la Rosa,
Southern Living,
12 Sep. 2025
The question of which individual investor owns which share of which company is surprisingly murky, an artifact of arcane market plumbing made more difficult by the rise of ETFs and fractional share ownership.
Hatton was a famous Manchester City supporter and the club held a minute’s applause before Sunday’s Manchester Derby with players also wearing black armbands in remembrance of the boxer.
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Nnamdi Onyeagwara,
New York Times,
14 Sep. 2025
The Boise Police Department (BPD) said the following day that safety remains their top priority as community members gather for remembrance events for 9/11 and Kirk.
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