flashbacks

Definition of flashbacksnext
plural of flashback

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Noun
  • Still, nostalgic home cooks are keeping the classics alive, recreating and sharing their takes and savoring the memories that come with them.
    Deirdre Bardolf, FOXNews.com, 8 Nov. 2025
  • Through these activities, garden partners are often able to remember and share fond memories of gardening with spouses and other family members.
    The San Diego Union Tribune, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • Indianapolis is no stranger to taverns with curious characters and colorful pasts, and its dive bar scene remains strong hundreds of years later.
    Bradley Hohulin, IndyStar, 7 Nov. 2025
  • As the show progresses, flashbacks also reveal parts of many of the characters' pasts.
    Brittney Melton, NPR, 7 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • Archival footage and personal recollections are blended in the movie, alongside testimonials from the closest people to him.
    Fairchild Studio, Footwear News, 29 Dec. 2025
  • His work combines on-the-ground reportage with historical reconstruction, often stitched together from a patchwork of oral recollections.
    Robert Rubsam, The Atlantic, 18 Dec. 2025
Noun
  • More effective is Oldroyd’s patience in establishing Jack and Anna’s histories with the murder victim, Rachel Hopkins (Jamie Tisdale).
    Judy Berman, Time, 8 Jan. 2026
  • These regular observations will gradually take in data and aim to provide pivotal information about the strengths, compositions, and histories of these primitive cosmic bodies.
    Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 8 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • His memoir is a patchy affair, to be honest, which omits entire swaths of his achievement, yet its wayward momentum exerts a certain charm, as if Hopkins were only just in control of his reminiscences.
    Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2025
  • Smith’s ever-present sense of destiny, her mystical optimism, and her penchant for rebellion make for reminiscences that can sound at once bombastic and humble, half-invented and visceral.
    Amy Weiss-Meyer, The Atlantic, 31 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • My poetry began as a father’s sly growl, became a spectacle on a rickety stage washed in limelight, and now is a 70-year-old woman’s walk back into a thousand yesterdays.
    Via Scribner, Literary Hub, 6 Oct. 2025
  • 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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“Flashbacks.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/flashbacks. Accessed 10 Jan. 2026.

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