flashbacks

noun

plural of flashback
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as in memories

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as in pasts

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Recent Examples of flashbacks Brief flashbacks to Mary’s earlier concerts are merely informational; another flashback, to a séance at which Mary yielded to self-harming mysticism, is far more consequential, leading to violence in Sam’s studio. — Vince Aletti, New Yorker, 17 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for flashbacks
  1. memories
  2. pasts
  3. recollections
  4. histories
  5. reminiscences
  6. yesterdays
  7. yesteryears
Noun
  • Watching his boys hit targets in the Tempe Diablo batting cages is one of Dino’s favorite baseball memories.
    — Maddie Lee, Los Angeles Times, 10 July 2026
  • The international travel-media platform has dug deep to uncover which parks will leave you flat, and which will create lifelong memories (hopefully of the happy kind).
    — John Metcalfe, Mercury News, 9 July 2026
Definition of memories
Noun
  • The elision of more recent pasts leaves something to be desired elsewhere in the show, too.
    — Cat Dawson, ARTnews.com, 3 July 2026
  • Stay Close, another popular Coben adaptation, starred an ensemble cast of Armitage, James Nesbitt, Cush Jumbo and others as strangers whose lives are upended following a strange disappearance that threats to resurface their dark pasts, per Variety.
    — Emily Blackwood, PEOPLE, 27 June 2026
Definition of pasts
Noun
  • Taken together, my trip recollections probably qualify me as living proof of Elliott’s traveler’s amnesia theory.
    — Alex Pulaski, Los Angeles Times, 8 July 2026
  • In an extremely enthusiastic and well-meaning X post (that has since been, obviously, deleted), Aron shared his recollections on pretty much everything.
    — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 6 July 2026
Definition of recollections
Noun
  • Across the exhibition, photographs become places where personal histories intersect with broader cultural narratives, revealing how memory continues to evolve long after an image is made.
    — PhotoVogue, Vogue, 2 July 2026
  • Lee’s portrait, searching and moving, first sparked my enthusiasm about biographies as histories of eras and of minds.
    — The Week US, TheWeek, 1 July 2026
Definition of histories
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  • The cruel cartoon of a constantly shrewish, venal, and disloyal Mary began cementing itself in the public mind when William Herndon, Lincoln’s Springfield law partner, started lecturing about his reminiscences within months of the President’s murder.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 21 May 2026
  • The cruel cartoon of a constantly shrewish, venal, and disloyal Mary began cementing itself in the public mind when William Herndon, Lincoln’s Springfield law partner, started lecturing about his reminiscences within months of the President’s murder.
    — Thomas Mallon, New Yorker, 18 May 2026
Definition of reminiscences
Noun
  • The two candidates who advance to the general election would be wise to offer Californians a hope for the future that doesn’t call back to our yesterdays.
    — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 15 May 2026
  • Today, as in all of mankind’s yesterdays, guarantees this type of song will never go out of style.
    — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 16 Apr. 2026
Definition of yesterdays
Noun
  • Non-manufacturing teams are spending more time in the plants than ever, and executive visits happen more regularly over the big, scripted affairs of yesteryears.
    — Breana Noble, Chicago Tribune, 25 June 2026
Definition of yesteryears

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