flashback
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The inflatables are a flashback to the late '80s when what began as a light-hearted joke soon turned into one of the most memorable fan crazes in English football.
From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026
This unexpected request prompts a flashback to Graham’s military posting in postwar Austria, which comprises the heart of the novel.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
The children appear in a series of charming flashback scenes woven into this romantic drama from Lebanon.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
A flashback to Supergirl’s first touchdown on Earth has the awkwardness of a study-abroad student realizing she doesn’t like her host country at all.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2026
“Me and Hazel holding hands...it’s not what you think. She was showing me this flashback from her past, trying to figure out my connection with Sammy.”
From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan
But some experts are getting flashbacks to an earlier generation — and the sorts of all-stock deals that became emblematic of the dot-com boom and bust.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 2, 2026
Unfortunately, the play is fundamentally modest and even intimate, essentially a courtroom procedural interspersed with flashbacks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
Hedge-fund-rich Sang-woo has an air of cool privilege, while the gloomy, taciturn Ho-seok harbors unprocessed trauma about what happened during the strike, the details of which are judiciously doled out to us in flashbacks.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026
The flashbacks come daily, to the point that he has needed to see a therapist.
From Barron's ● Oct. 5, 2026
A nice smooth glide—no flashbacks or midnight sweats.
From "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien
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Literary Devices & Figures of Speech - Introductory
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