nostalgia
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What had looked like a catastrophe turned into a marketing coup: In a wave of nostalgia, millions of Americans rediscovered a tried-and-true product.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
There is a strange nostalgia in realizing that something once so immediate now belongs increasingly to people who know it only as the past.
From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2026
While there is a lot of nostalgia at the events, he says they are also popular with a younger crowd.
From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2026
They’re not living in the past — they don’t have nostalgia for the good old days.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026
Though I had left the island eight years before, my memories of prison were still fresh and untinged by nostalgia.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
Vocabulary lists containing nostalgia
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