reminiscence
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That’s because the years from adolescence into early adulthood form what memory researchers call the reminiscence bump, when we forge our strongest musical memories.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 15, 2026
It was the director’s first DGA win after two prior nominations, in 2008 for “There Will Be Blood” and in 2022 for his San Fernando Valley reminiscence “Licorice Pizza.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 8, 2026
"At Walpole we spend our lives preserving the past for the education and enjoyment for the next generations and reminiscence for those of us who lived it," she added.
From BBC ● Jan. 29, 2026
“The combined drop in the dollar, equities and Treasuries was a reminiscence of the ‘sell America’ days of last spring,” said Pesole at ING.
From Barron's ● Jan. 12, 2026
The Platonists’ doctrines of recurrence and reminiscence were not the real problem, however; both were endorsed by Proclus, who still wrote, as the Greeks did, in terms of discovery.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
“Every time we text about our teenage years, I’m amazed we survived,” someone else wrote, kicking off a flurry of reminiscences about our misadventures.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 25, 2026
Birdwell, who lost her home in Berry Creek, still thinks of that cabin as a “slice of heaven” and reminiscences “about how life used to be.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2025
The concert will feature readings, reminiscences and music from performers such as Samantha Barks and Toploader, plus a nostalgic revival of the BBC wartime comedy Dad's Army.
From BBC ● Apr. 24, 2025
But it was a bit nerve-racking initially, given that “halting reminiscences about the 1940s” are exactly the kind of thing Joe probably does not want voters associating with him at the moment.
From Slate ● Mar. 8, 2024
He and the American senator greeted each other as old colleagues and they were to be seen together for much of the remainder of that day, laughing over reminiscences.
From "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro
Vocabulary lists containing reminiscence
Henry David Thoreau "Civil Disobedience" (1849)
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Civil Disobedience
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