nostalgia
Example Sentences
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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
Our opinions of Hollywood’s dip into the nostalgia well may vary, but it’s easy to want to feel the kind of joy that a game or toy brought us when the world felt less complicated.
From Los Angeles Times • May 14, 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
I had something of value—even if it was just a truck that brought out a sweet nostalgia in people.
From "Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe" by Benjamin Alire Saenz
Vocabulary lists containing nostalgia
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