nostalgia
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But some have asked whether this was just a nostalgia trip.
From BBC • Apr. 11, 2026
Yet for all the mythical qualities of Apollo, Jack Kiraly, director of government relations at the Planetary Society, said "nostalgia" perhaps "glosses over some of the issues that the program at the time faced."
From Barron's • Apr. 11, 2026
Some sports media types believe SI is largely a nostalgia play in a landscape where young fans go elsewhere for game highlights and turn to provocative hosts such as Pat McAfee on YouTube.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 5, 2026
The revenge of the analog—through the popularity of Moleskine notebooks and letterpress cards, through the revival of film cameras among Gen Z—comes down to something more interesting than simple nostalgia.
From Slate • Apr. 4, 2026
She’d spent decades with the dead, listening to them yearn for past lives that were only half-remembered, distorted by nostalgia.
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
Vocabulary lists containing nostalgia
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