flashbacks

plural of flashback

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for flashbacks
Noun
  • When stress or uncertainty arises, couples who have built a history or reservoir of supportive and playful interactions can draw upon these memories to cope more effectively.
    Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 13 Sep. 2025
  • Those are always kind of my best memories of high school.
    Doug Kyed, Boston Herald, 13 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • In his upcoming fantasy romance movie with Margot Robbie, their characters, David and Sarah, two singles who meet at a wedding, embark on a life-changing road trip, reliving important moments from their pasts through magical doorways.
    Sydney Bucksbaum, Entertainment Weekly, 10 Sep. 2025
  • The thriller stars Nishijima and Gwei as a married couple in New York whose seemingly happy life unravels after their son is kidnapped, exposing hidden pasts and suppressed emotions.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 3 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Her ancestor’s analytic model discouraged self-revelation by the therapist, but Freud often meets her guests’ excavations of desire and vulnerability with her own candid recollections.
    Rebecca Mead, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025
  • 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
Noun
  • Accordance’s software is trained on public tax data, including up-to-date code and court rulings and also learns from customers’ own financial histories.
    Rashi Shrivastava, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Both men had histories of mental illness.
    Kelly Davis, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The poet’s reminiscences form the core of several poems that rank among the glories of twentieth-century American literature.
    Dan Chiasson, New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2025
  • There’s a late-harvest glint to the guitar here, distinctly offset by a roadhouse stomp, punctuating Snoop’s poignant reminiscences.
    Will Dukes, Rolling Stone, 13 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • As noted in yesterdays’ newsletter, O’Hearn is 4-for-5 with two home runs and two doubles against lefties.
    Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Aug. 2025
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