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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.
—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
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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.
—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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for afterimage
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What begins as a journey for father and son to spread the ashes of their wife and mother, Faye, quickly turns into a fantastical adventure the tests their relationship and digs up ghosts from Kratos' past.—
Nick Romano,
Entertainment Weekly,
27 Feb. 2026
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In times of crumble and collapse, buildings and governments may fall, but stories are the ghosts that whisper to us from the rubble.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
26 Feb. 2026
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Editors also appreciated it for its consistency and mouthfeel, which didn't leave an aftertaste and felt fresh all the way through.—
Catherine Jessee,
Southern Living,
21 Feb. 2026
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There’s no shortage of stylish craft here and much to enjoy in the performances, but ultimately, Rosebush Pruning is too glib to work, leaving only an acrid aftertaste.—
David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
14 Feb. 2026
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They got married at the golden hour and stayed until late to shoot photos, their shadows beneath a stream of stars.—
Lauren Villagran,
USA Today,
28 Feb. 2026
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Reporter, author and anthropologist Brian Goldstone has spent years embedded with families in this shadow realm of homelessness.—
Max Klaver,
Miami Herald,
27 Feb. 2026
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An echo of that earlier outrage followed the revelations of the Epstein files, though this round has so far been diverted into mutual partisan recrimination, more than the focus on institutional changes that characterized those earlier movements.—
Adam Serwer,
The Atlantic,
26 Feb. 2026
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By illuminating the chilling echoes of 1929 in Hamas’ massacre of October 7, 2023, Schwartz illustrates how little has changed — and how much of our perspective must change if peace is ever to come to this land and its people.—
Matt Grobar,
Deadline,
19 Feb. 2026
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After last year’s massive layoffs, several divisions inside Paramount Skydance (such as the cable outlets and the last vestiges of Showtime) have been cut to the bone.—
Cynthia Littleton,
Variety,
27 Feb. 2026
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These vestiges are typically hauled to landfills for disposal.—
Lois K. Solomon,
Sun Sentinel,
27 Feb. 2026
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Each artifact was recorded with centimeter-level GPS precision, allowing archaeologists to map activity zones, according to Archaeology News.—
Maria Mocerino,
Interesting Engineering,
1 Mar. 2026
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The installation reproduces local KGB archives on Stalin and facsimiles of historical artifacts of the 1960s placed around an AR reconstruction of Buddha in Nirvana, a forty-three-foot-long, 1,600-year-old clay statue of a reclining Buddha excavated in Tajikistan in the late ’60s.—
Anel Rakhimzhanova,
Artforum,
1 Mar. 2026
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In the aftermath of Dane's passing, his former costars have shared their remembrances and their fond memories of working with the late actor.—
Mekishana Pierre,
Entertainment Weekly,
27 Feb. 2026
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The wind off the harbor is still sharp, but the calendar insists on remembrance.—
Jack Hill,
Baltimore Sun,
26 Feb. 2026
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“Afterimage.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/afterimage. Accessed 4 Mar. 2026.
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