flashback
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Plus: A flashback to the Dow’s 3000 milestone, 35 years ago.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 13, 2026
This will be a tale of crime and punishment told in flashback, rewinding to Becket’s mother, an heiress excised from an eleven-figure fortune for giving birth as an unwed teenager.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 18, 2026
Yet the flashback sequences to Vito Corleone’s arrival in America give it resonance for a country built on immigration, and the film is now almost universally considered the best of the three.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 8, 2026
Pollock, who has spent hundreds of hours diving in submersibles, counts some of the more spectacular "flashback bioluminescence" events as among the most memorable moments in his career.
From Barron's • Jan. 26, 2026
I have a flashback to the last time I went snooping where I didn’t belong, and for a heartbeat I wonder if maybe I should’ve learned my lesson.
From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland
Vocabulary lists containing flashback
Literary Devices & Figures of Speech - Introductory
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Essential Literary Terms
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Reading: Literature - Literary Devices & Figures of Speech - Middle School
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