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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

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

Bodies — theirs and others — fill in the space, but their afterimage reverberates.

From New York Times Feb. 2, 2024

Where there had once been toothless rebellion, now there was eager compliance—even if the show had trained me to see insincerity floating in the air, like the afterimage from decade-old flash.

From Slate Jul. 17, 2020

She was still blinking away the afterimage of Rasalas’s gleaming teeth, and the knowledge that it was all her fault.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor




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