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afterimage

[af-ter-im-ij, ahf-] / ˈæf tərˌɪm ɪdʒ, ˈɑf- /


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Czernowitz was by then a Habsburg afterimage: Jews, Germans, Romanians, Ukrainians and Poles, brushing past one another in schools, markets and cafes, their lives conducted in competing alphabets.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 5, 2026

By night’s end, after the applause faded, one could almost feel the afterimage settling into New York’s political memory.

From Slate Jun. 30, 2025

Her scores can evoke the glint and glare of staring at the sun — its beauty, its harshness, its burning afterimage — but also the slowly dizzying churn of the depths of the sea.

From New York Times Jun. 2, 2023

Through photography and sleuthy archival projects she maps a certain afterimage of Los Angeles like a noir conceptualist.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 21, 2021

NO: an afterimage burned on their retinas, the glow seared forever in their memory.

From "Tradition" by Brendan Kiely




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