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nostalgia

[no-stal-juh, -jee-uh, nuh-] / nɒˈstæl dʒə, -dʒi ə, nə- /


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Their reconciliation seems to owe to their sadness about the state of the world—discontents such as the artificial-intelligence revolution and the Gaza war trouble the background—and their nostalgia for the shared fancies of childhood.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026

I assumed nostalgia was fueling the desire to give these Golden Age musicals a makeover.

From Los Angeles Times • May 20, 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

"One thing we don't want to do is out-price fish and chips. It's a nostalgia, it's a romance, to come to the beach and have fish and chips, we definitely don't want to outprice."

From BBC • May 13, 2026

That process of nostalgia was also evident in the pictures.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez




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