flashback
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A flashback to Supergirl’s first touchdown on Earth has the awkwardness of a study-abroad student realizing she doesn’t like her host country at all.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2026
In the flashback to the car accident, Eddie tries to distract Daphne with a story about a girl and a horse.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026
Or was it a flashback to his old self?
From BBC ● Mar. 31, 2026
It’s “kind of a flashback for some of us,” Andrew said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 5, 2026
Ivan’s voice snapped her out of her flashback, and she startled as he set his hand on her shoulder.
From Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack
“People get flashbacks when they see what’s happening in Ukraine,” Orr, 45, said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
Henrietta can experience a sense of "despair and distress" during her luteal phase, including feeling as though she is useless or having "intense flashbacks to embarrassing or upsetting experiences".
From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026
“I would have random flashbacks and panic attacks from anything,” he told me.
From Salon ● Jun. 22, 2026
“If you talk to old-timers who fought this thing in the ’50s and ’60s, they talk about it like it was Vietnam: They are having flashbacks to confronting this horror.”
From Slate ● Jun. 11, 2026
Little by little, the flashbacks began to recede.
From "How Dare the Sun Rise" by Sandra Uwiringiyimana
Vocabulary lists containing flashback
Literary Devices & Figures of Speech - Introductory
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Reading: Literature - Literary Devices & Figures of Speech - Middle School
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