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flashbacks

  • plural
    of flashback.
    flashback
    noun
    a device in the narrative of a motion picture, novel, etc., by which an event or scene taking place before the present time in the narrative is inserted into the chronological structure of the work.

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“I would have random flashbacks and panic attacks from anything,” he told me.

From Salon Jun. 22, 2026

In a statement read on her behalf immediately before sentencing, she described suffering "flashbacks".

From BBC Jun. 12, 2026

“If you talk to old-timers who fought this thing in the ’50s and ’60s, they talk about it like it was Vietnam: They are having flashbacks to confronting this horror.”

From Slate Jun. 11, 2026

In long flashbacks, Daphne unfolds her memories of the night of the accident to her sister.

From The Wall Street Journal May 29, 2026

When I get these flashbacks, I feel like someone scooped my soul out and trampled it on the dirty ground.

From "I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter" by Erika L. Sánchez