afterimage
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of afterimage
Example Sentences
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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
You’ll feel loss, but the afterimage of this singular woman’s belief in finding light is what will burn.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 14, 2025
By night’s end, after the applause faded, one could almost feel the afterimage settling into New York’s political memory.
From Slate ● Jun. 30, 2025
Once, when I was a teenager, I saw a fireball that was so bright that it left an afterimage on my eye.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 8, 2023
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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