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flashback

[flash-bak] / ˈflæʃˌbæk /


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Rosy and Doryan’s first meeting, with her comforting him as he is in the throes of a war flashback, has a desperate intensity; later, their forest love scene has a peaceable beauty.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026

"Miranda is a good detective," noted James A in a flashback to the turret talk from the night before.

From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026

"That's our biggest threat," explained Jama, in a flashback from the previous night's scenes in the traitors turret.

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026

But his voice tyrannically resounds with sadistic orders and conservative cultural commentary during the second-act flashback scene, in which a fateful day on the set of the show changes the lives of Ronika and Blair.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026

She was clutching the rigging, still dazed from her flashback, but she gestured that she was all right.

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

The flashbacks are rendered in dynamic hand-drawn animation that harkens back to 1990s Japanese anime.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

The flashbacks come daily, to the point that he has needed to see a therapist.

From Barron's ● Oct. 5, 2026

So eventually, in three quick flashbacks, Morgenstern returns to what I think is the story.

From "The Princess Bride" by William Goldman


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