flashback
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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
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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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Literary Devices & Figures of Speech - Introductory
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