nostalgia
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When we were kids, nostalgia happened in the ’70s: “American Graffiti,” “Happy Days,” “Laverne & Shirley,” all that stuff.
From Los Angeles Times • May 18, 2026
While seeing Trout recapture the past elicits a warm nostalgia, everything happening around him evokes a familiar source of frustration.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 17, 2026
"We're growing up with this television show. And I think there's maybe this nostalgia in a way that there isn't for other things."
From Barron's • May 16, 2026
“The Boys of Dungeon Lane,” Paul McCartney’s twenty-seventh post-Beatles studio album, is the portrait of an artist in his twilight, a rich assortment of storytelling and nostalgia befitting the world’s greatest living songwriter.
From Salon • May 12, 2026
When he does, it’s with nostalgia, as if she’s already a thing of the past, or beautifully dead, like someone in a poem.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
Vocabulary lists containing nostalgia
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