aftertastes

plural of aftertaste
as in shadows
a sensation that remains after something is experienced The wine has a fruity aftertaste.

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Noun
  • Not as shadows lurking in code prompt chains.
    Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 11 Nov. 2025
  • Adams drove the route through the warehouse-y section of Albuquerque that had been chosen for Scene 46, and saw that the way the shadows hit the car would inevitably create a shadow of the camera and of any lighting equipment on Seehorn’s face.
    Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 11 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • That, too, had echoes of last season, when City, the reigning champions, lost their way completely after a promising start, winning just one match out of 13 in all competitions between late October and late December.
    Oliver Kay, New York Times, 8 Nov. 2025
  • Ditto the echoes of The Civil War, also examining a battle that pit brother against brother, and The Vietnam War, in which America became the occupying imperial force failing to understand or successfully combat a domestic insurgence.
    Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 6 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • Premiering May 15 in Cannes’ ACID sidebar, the France–Palestine–Iran co-production traces Farsi’s efforts to get closer to the conflict when borders made reporting impossible, and finds a singular, resilient voice in Hassona’s daily dispatches from Gaza.
    Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 7 Nov. 2025
  • Now, the Avenger wreck is one focal point for scientists in a cutting-edge endeavor to understand whether traces of decades-old DNA can be preserved and detected at wreck sites.
    Katie Hunt, CNN Money, 7 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • These ghosts, which take the form of their dead friends, are mostly just goofy, with the shoddy special effects and glowy auras giving the whole thing a distinctly Haunted Mansion vibe; critically, the threat never feels real, which undermines any tension.
    Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 10 Nov. 2025
  • The ghosts of a 37-0 shutout to Iowa less than a month ago still lingered — the boos that faded into silence, the homecoming crowd that emptied before the fourth quarter, the scoreboard stuck on humiliation.
    Ira Gorawara, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • Their jaws dropped at the troves of historic artifacts and country music relics laid out before them.
    Laura L. Davis, Nashville Tennessean, 10 Nov. 2025
  • Explore the relics of the neighborhood that raised the brothers who penned and composed the Black National Anthem, or celebrate the preservation of African heritage at the annual Gullah Geechee Festival.
    Essence, Essence, 7 Nov. 2025
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“Aftertastes.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/aftertastes. Accessed 15 Nov. 2025.

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