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Recent Examples of flashback
Sometimes, but not always, the shorter sketch is a flashback that gives context to a more recent interlude.
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Alison Herman, Variety, 22 Aug. 2025
Picquart had been one of Dreyfus’s professors at the academy; in a flashback, Dreyfus challenges a low grade given by Picquart, accusing him of antisemitic prejudice.
—Richard Brody, New Yorker, 14 Aug. 2025
In the season premiere of Wednesday season two, director Tim Burton returned to his stop-motion animation roots for a visually stunning flashback sequence that took eight months to complete.
—James Hibberd, HollywoodReporter, 11 Aug. 2025
There’s a flashback with Susannah (Rachel Blanchard).
—Dessi Gomez, Deadline, 7 Aug. 2025
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Alison Herman, Variety, 22 Aug. 2025
Picquart had been one of Dreyfus’s professors at the academy; in a flashback, Dreyfus challenges a low grade given by Picquart, accusing him of antisemitic prejudice.
—Richard Brody, New Yorker, 14 Aug. 2025
In the season premiere of Wednesday season two, director Tim Burton returned to his stop-motion animation roots for a visually stunning flashback sequence that took eight months to complete.
—James Hibberd, HollywoodReporter, 11 Aug. 2025
There’s a flashback with Susannah (Rachel Blanchard).
—Dessi Gomez, Deadline, 7 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for flashback
Noun
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Like her other books comprising private connections and recollections, Romano preferred to call Le parole a novel rather than a memoir or autobiography, seeing the distinction between fact and fiction as an irrelevant one for literature.—
Brian Robert Moore
September 5,
Literary Hub,
5 Sep. 2025
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Amparo Heredia has a vivid recollection of her parents performing in what was Miami’s vibrant Flamenco scene in the 1980s when many tablaos dotted the city.—
Emily Cardenas,
Miami Herald,
2 Sep. 2025
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Even though it's not shown very much, there was trepidation on my end as well, especially with my past and everything.—
Kristen Baldwin September 2,
EW.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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Huma Sulaiman Design’s captivating spaces are a study in contrasts—dark and light, past and present, crisp lines and soft curves.—
Elizabeth Stamp,
Architectural Digest,
3 Sep. 2025
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While Netanyahu is ageing, his memory is not at fault here.—
MSNBC Newsweek,
MSNBC Newsweek,
4 Sep. 2025
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Listening to a Swift song is like eating a candy bar that transmits a personal essay into your memory.—
Spencer Kornhaber,
The Atlantic,
4 Sep. 2025
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The original 2012 version is a five-minute strummed reminiscence that was never released as a single; the now-canonical version, released in 2021, is 10 minutes long.—
Spencer Kornhaber,
The Atlantic,
4 Sep. 2025
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Maybe people closer to Lohan's age, with families or careers of their own, hoping for a hit of reminiscence, without any of the mess that accompanies actually coming of age.—
Anna Kaufman,
USA Today,
11 Aug. 2025
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The choices of Gloria Gaynor, George Strait, Kiss, Michael Crawford, and Sylvester Stallone for the prestigious Kennedy Center Honors signal yet the latest example of Trump putting his thumb on the scale of American culture and tossing it back to yesteryear.—
Philip Elliott,
Time,
13 Aug. 2025
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There is an irony that even as clubs focus on and invest ever more deeply in set pieces, the tactics are trending towards yesteryear.—
Liam Tharme,
New York Times,
12 Aug. 2025
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The recall by Chrysler, issued on Thursday, includes 2022 to 2026 plug-in hybrid electric models of the SUV — affecting 91,787 vehicles.—
Chandelis Duster,
NPR,
7 Sep. 2025
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The state of Pennsylvania’s testing caused the recall.—
David J. Neal,
Miami Herald,
7 Sep. 2025
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This history lesson was not, however, the focus of the year two students, who clamored towards the phone box with Camilla in tow to try out a British tradition.—
Meredith Kile,
PEOPLE,
5 Sep. 2025
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Only seven primary catchers have eclipsed 300 or more homers in MLB history.—
Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
5 Sep. 2025
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Some buildings downtown offer harrowing reminders of this dark history.—
Quentin Corpuel,
Kansas City Star,
6 Sep. 2025
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Tanks rumbled through Tiananmen Square, a location that offered a stark reminder of how authoritarian states can violently crush democratic movements.—
Elizabeth Shackelford,
Chicago Tribune,
5 Sep. 2025
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“Flashback.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/flashback. Accessed 8 Sep. 2025.
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