afterimage
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of afterimage
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Czernowitz was by then a Habsburg afterimage: Jews, Germans, Romanians, Ukrainians and Poles, brushing past one another in schools, markets and cafes, their lives conducted in competing alphabets.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026
Her scores can evoke the glint and glare of staring at the sun — its beauty, its harshness, its burning afterimage — but also the slowly dizzying churn of the depths of the sea.
From New York Times ● Jun. 2, 2023
Through photography and sleuthy archival projects she maps a certain afterimage of Los Angeles like a noir conceptualist.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 21, 2021
Where there had once been toothless rebellion, now there was eager compliance—even if the show had trained me to see insincerity floating in the air, like the afterimage from decade-old flash.
From Slate ● Jul. 17, 2020
She was still blinking away the afterimage of Rasalas’s gleaming teeth, and the knowledge that it was all her fault.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
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