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
Or was it a flashback to his old self?
From BBC • Mar. 31, 2026
As recounted in flashback, Debbie had discovered William, who has Parkinson’s disease, not breathing and unresponsive.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 12, 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
One of my friends actually said he had a flashback about the death of one of his friends.
From "The Freedom Writers Diary" by The Freedom Writers
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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