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
"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
Shuttered in 1997, Opryland remains a source of southern nostalgia that Bargatze hopes to tap with Nateland.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 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
Even now, stripped of their opulence, crowded into two-bedroom apartments in Hialeah and Little Havana, the Puente women clung to their rituals as they did their engraved silverware, succumbing to a cloying nostalgia.
From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García
Vocabulary lists containing nostalgia
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