FLASH BACK TO Synonyms: 31 Similar and Opposite Words

flash back (to)

verb

Definition of flash back (to)

as in to remember

to bring back to mind the scent made me flash back to the days of my mother's home-cooked Sunday dinners

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The service Warm and efficient, offering to show you around the historic corners of the hotel, remembering coffee orders at breakfast, and recommending dishes on the menu as if cooking supper in their own home.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 3 Sep. 2026
Reading Ascherson’s finest essays today, so many of them on the big European personalities—de Gaulle, Brandt, Thatcher—is still invigorating, even for those of us too young to remember the fall of the Berlin Wall.

— Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 3 Sep. 2026

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Those songs and more were performed during his set by an ace band that included two drummers, whose polyrhythmic beat recalled the Burundi-like drumming of Ant’s 1980 masterpiece Kings of the Wild Frontier.

— David Chiu, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2026
Cole recalled how, at the close of those early shows, the drawings were removed from their frames and returned to Auckland, to be put back in their cupboards.

— Laura Preston, New Yorker, 30 Aug. 2026

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