flashback

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Recent Examples of flashback Fogelman likes to play around with time to create mysteries within otherwise straightforward narratives, and that’s how Paradise works, introducing little points of confusion and then filling in the backstory with flashbacks to flesh things out. Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Jan. 2025 Hyde’s artsy, category-defying film can feel a bit chaotic at times, crammed with distracting splinters of key memories (unnecessary flashbacks in which different-looking younger actors embody the same character). Peter Debruge, Variety, 23 Jan. 2025 As the podcast episode came to a close, the pair reflected on the TV episode’s final musical number that paid tribute to the late actor, including a montage of flashbacks accompanied by a medley of Finn’s favorite songs. Charna Flam, People.com, 21 Jan. 2025 In flashbacks, the film focuses on the AIDS crisis in the early 1980s. Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 23 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for flashback 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for flashback
Noun
  • The innie and the outie are the same person, with the same temperament, but with no memory or recollection of the inverse world, and presumably none of the emotional baggage.
    Diana Budds, Curbed, 24 Jan. 2025
  • Dozens of Miami Herald readers — escorted on a chilly trip down memory lane by a Friday story chronicling the 30th anniversary of a morning when snow fell in Miami — responded by posting their own recollections on MiamiHerald.com.
    Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 22 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Gascón acknowledged her past post disparaging George Floyd, whose 2020 murder prompted a national reckoning on policing.
    Kalhan Rosenblatt, NBC News, 7 Feb. 2025
  • Despite the turbulent past of the Reformation and King Henry VIII’s break with Rome almost 500 years ago, relations between the Vatican and the British monarchy are today marked by warmth and mutual respect.
    Lauren Said-Moorhouse, CNN, 6 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Those supermarket smack-talking sessions have gone on to become some of Struthers’ favorite memories of Arthur.
    EW.com, EW.com, 9 Feb. 2025
  • Rachel Wisniewski/for NPR One of Roman's favorite memories came this season in a game against the Jacksonville Jaguars.
    Frank Langfitt, NPR, 8 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • As Pete recalls events that happened to him, to people around him or to relatives, the intimate reminiscences meet the macro, touching on the impact of residential schools, land claims by greedy companies and the disproportionate incarceration of First Nations individuals.
    Carlos Aguilar, Variety, 1 Feb. 2025
  • Even before Lucky has his first flashback to lovelier days, Catlett has been carrying the weight and bittersweet power of reminiscence in his visage.
    Lisa Kennedy, Variety, 23 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • While some stars went modern with their looks (Naomi Watts and Tilda Swinton both delivered on that front), nominees like Mikey Madison, Margaret Qualley, and Amy Adams all were visions straight of Hollywood's yesteryear.
    Kevin Lynn, Newsweek, 6 Jan. 2025
  • Bringing Downey back at the center of a gigantic crossover is a much riskier move into yesteryear.
    Darren Franich, Vulture, 31 July 2024
Noun
  • This week, the Consumer Product Safety Commission announced a recall of more than 500,000 LG electric stoves sold at Best Buy, Lowe’s, Costco, Home Depot, LG.com (online), and other appliance stores.
    Abigail Wilt, Southern Living, 10 Feb. 2025
  • The voluntary recall was concluded last month, according to FGF, the New Jersey company that made the baked goods.
    Tom Gavin, EverydayHealth.com, 10 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Nyle DiMarco & Davis Guggenheim; 2024; USA; 100 min Over eight intense days in 1988, a student protest at the world’s only deaf university changed the course of history.
    Addie Morfoot, Variety, 5 Feb. 2025
  • On Monday, another longtime big leaguer, a World Series winner who once won the AL RBI crown and is one of only 18 players in MLB history to hit four home runs in one game announced plans to move into another professional sport: pickleball.
    Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Newsweek, 5 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • The snafu over the OMB memo was a reminder that de-wokeifying the government isn’t a matter of snapping one’s fingers.
    Matthew Continetti, National Review, 1 Feb. 2025
  • Jeff Swensen/Getty Images Groundhog Day can be a reminder of this delicate balance.
    Avery Keatley, NPR, 1 Feb. 2025

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