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Recent Examples of afterimage
Truth floats around him like afterimages, those dark spots that bob in and out of focus.
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Robin Givhan, Washington Post, 27 Feb. 2024
Reported injuries mostly entail eye pain or irritation, flash blindness and afterimages or unspecified eye injuries.
—Catherine Allen, NBC News, 31 Jan. 2024
Bodies — theirs and others — fill in the space, but their afterimage reverberates.
—Gia Kourlas, New York Times, 2 Feb. 2024
The results have sometimes been described as memories that barely hold together, and as attempts to ascribe significance to the foggy afterimages of art history.
—Zachary Small, New York Times, 22 Sep. 2023
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Robin Givhan, Washington Post, 27 Feb. 2024
Reported injuries mostly entail eye pain or irritation, flash blindness and afterimages or unspecified eye injuries.
—Catherine Allen, NBC News, 31 Jan. 2024
Bodies — theirs and others — fill in the space, but their afterimage reverberates.
—Gia Kourlas, New York Times, 2 Feb. 2024
The results have sometimes been described as memories that barely hold together, and as attempts to ascribe significance to the foggy afterimages of art history.
—Zachary Small, New York Times, 22 Sep. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for afterimage
Noun
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There will be more hiking through desolate, wide-open spaces, more ghosts, and, of course, more unhinged metamodern storytelling.—
Lewis Gordon,
Vulture,
8 Jan. 2025
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Located on a former plantation, there are stories about the ghosts of enslaved people frequenting the area around the oak, contributing to its spiritual atmosphere.—
Jessica Farthing,
Southern Living,
2 Jan. 2025
Noun
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The finish is crisp, with a mild citrus aftertaste.—
Joseph V Micallef,
Forbes,
31 Dec. 2024
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That medicine came with a vile aftertaste, too, but was necessary.—
Eric Koreen,
The Athletic,
29 Dec. 2024
Noun
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Buck stands under the soft glow of Tiffany-style fixtures, his guitar slung casually over his shoulders and his brown cowboy hat casting a shadow over his black denim jacket.—
Maxwell Williams,
Los Angeles Times,
9 Jan. 2025
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Since its discovery in the 1970s and protection under the Endangered Species Act, the snail darter has cast a long shadow over American law, conservation and biology.—
Eli Wizevich,
Smithsonian Magazine,
8 Jan. 2025
Noun
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But the echoes of Bud Dajo can still be heard in the Philippines.—
Foreign Affairs,
Foreign Affairs,
7 Jan. 2025
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Speculation about negotiations may add to the echoes of the deal that followed the World War II battles Finland fought against Moscow.—
Dan Perry,
Newsweek,
5 Jan. 2025
Noun
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There is a mountain of evidence that kids are suffering from a broken vestige of a system that produces no positive value.—
Daniel R. Depetris,
Newsweek,
10 Jan. 2025
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The wooden fort is long gone, but stone gun mounts and other small vestiges remain on the property along the Thames River, along with a more recent monument.—
Don Stacom,
Hartford Courant,
6 Jan. 2025
Noun
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The images the engineers wound up getting were loaded with defects and artifacts—such a bright source would reveal a multitude of sins in any camera.—
Phil Plait,
Scientific American,
16 Jan. 2025
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In the 1940s, efforts began to collect oral histories and artifacts about African Americans in the Bay Area.—
Kate Bradshaw,
The Mercury News,
16 Jan. 2025
Noun
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The service follows almost a week of remembrance honoring Carter, who died on Dec. 29 at the age of 100.—
Kaia Hubbard,
CBS News,
9 Jan. 2025
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Carter’s funeral, and many of the remembrances that have poured forth during this week of national mourning, offered a far more positive narrative—and Biden must surely have taken heart from it.—
Susan B. Glasser,
The New Yorker,
9 Jan. 2025
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“Afterimage.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/afterimage. Accessed 22 Jan. 2025.
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