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
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
Bodies — theirs and others — fill in the space, but their afterimage reverberates.
From New York Times • Feb. 2, 2024
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
I looked up in time to see her disappear around the landing above us, that endless mane of hair trailing behind her like a blurred afterimage.
From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs
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