flashbacks

plural of flashback

Example Sentences

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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
  • The one-off doc will present first-hand recollections of the Israel-Hamas war from Israel Defense Force (IDF) veterans and reservists who have served in the conflict.
    Stewart Clarke, Deadline, 7 Nov. 2025
  • But there’s a lot to be gained from listening to first-hand recollections.
    Graham Womack, Sacbee.com, 26 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Many of these arrestees have long histories of addiction and significant health and mental health challenges.
    Kelly Davis, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Nov. 2025
  • The goal for Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez, each Parsons School of Design graduates, is to honour the codes of the LVMH house through the lenses of their cultural histories and personal aesthetics.
    Vogue Business Team, Vogue, 4 Nov. 2025
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 15 Nov. 2025.

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