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Czernowitz was by then a Habsburg afterimage: Jews, Germans, Romanians, Ukrainians and Poles, brushing past one another in schools, markets and cafes, their lives conducted in competing alphabets.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026
With an orange and yellow face, teal-ringed eyes and oversize lips, it could be the glowing afterimage of someone who’s looked in the mirror a moment too long.
From New York Times ● Feb. 29, 2024
Once, when I was a teenager, I saw a fireball that was so bright that it left an afterimage on my eye.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 8, 2023
Through photography and sleuthy archival projects she maps a certain afterimage of Los Angeles like a noir conceptualist.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 21, 2021
She was still blinking away the afterimage of Rasalas’s gleaming teeth, and the knowledge that it was all her fault.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
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