nostalgic
Example Sentences
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Twin Peaks was both a place haunted by violence and a nostalgic fantasy of small-town innocence.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026
The encore was pure joy, with the English-language bops Dynamite and Butter cosying up to the nostalgic pop of 2019's Mikrokosmos.
From BBC • Apr. 9, 2026
For Thompson, "some of this nostalgic stuff goes on a cycle, usually somewhere around 20 years."
From Barron's • Apr. 8, 2026
Wrangling Gellar free from her inadvertent nostalgic trappings is no simple task.
From Salon • Mar. 26, 2026
That is all of what was “in the balance,” the nostalgic moment’s corrupt and unspeakable core.
From "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Vocabulary lists containing nostalgic
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