Thesaurus results for AFTERIMAGE

afterimage

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as in ghost

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Recent Examples of afterimage 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 The afterimage of any one scene lasts in the human visual system for fractions of a second, Banna says. — Charlotte Hu, Scientific American, 31 Oct. 2024 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

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In her first sketch, Navarrette and Hernandez played the ghost of a couple of 1930s kids on the Queen Mary who keep distracting a tourist from hearing where another ghost’s treasure is hidden.

— Glenn Garner, Deadline, 31 Oct. 2026
All parties, that is, except for Oluko, who has emerged as a late-breaking villain and ghost in the machine.

— Scott Tobias, Vulture, 30 Oct. 2026

Definition of ghost

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Colors were suitably accurate and nicely saturated, and the image offered good contrast across the board from dark to bright scenes, along with impressively good shadow detail and a sense of three-dimensionality in dark scenes.

— M. David Stone, PC Magazine, 24 Oct. 2026
The bear was also recently featured in Southern Living — for a few months each fall, a local mountain casts a shadow shaped like a bear onto the fall foliage below.

— Eva Flowe, Charlotte Observer, 23 Oct. 2026

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Her rise has echoes of podcaster Ashley Flowers and blogger Jessica Red Krauss — media outsiders who tapped into deep veins of public interest.

— Ben Smith, semafor.com, 2 Nov. 2026
Shortly after a scene in which their absent father speaks about them in narration, an echo from beyond the grave, three sisters – oldest Kyo, middle child Asumi and youngest Kino – learn of his death.

— Kambole Campbell, Variety, 29 Oct. 2026

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Turkey achieved the repatriation of some 180 cultural artifacts in 2025 alone, notes Tech Times, bringing the total since 1980 to more than 26,700.

— Brian Boucher, ARTnews.com, 4 Nov. 2026
In 2017, the company settled, forfeited thousands of artifacts, paid $3 million, and accepted responsibility for its conduct.

— Steven John, Fortune, 3 Nov. 2026

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Over the past week, Iceland has explored that question not only through another conventional summit, but through a journey from remembrance to dialogue, and from dialogue to responsibility.

— Halla Tómasdóttir, Time, 16 Oct. 2026
Flowers and candles were held Wednesday night in remembrance of a Reading, Massachusetts, mother who was allegedly murdered by her own son.

— Tammy Mutasa, CBS News, 15 Oct. 2026

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