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Example Sentences

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You’ll feel loss, but the afterimage of this singular woman’s belief in finding light is what will burn.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 14, 2025

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

You should see an afterimage of the Norwegian flag in its correct colors.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

Even with normal perception, if you look directly at the sun you will experience the subsequent retinal afterimage as not being real.

From Scientific American • Aug. 27, 2019

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

From "Tradition" by Brendan Kiely