flashback
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"I thought it would be interesting to take two broken men in adult life and flashback to their childhood to see what made them the way they are."
From BBC • Apr. 21, 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
He pitched the opening sequence — a flashback showing Kayce in the battlefield.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 1, 2026
She was clutching the rigging, still dazed from her flashback, but she gestured that she was all right.
From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan
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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