Example Sentences

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“The Big Goodbye,” with a title referring in part to the Brigadoon-like Hollywood that would vanish after “Chinatown” was made, is full of wild tidbits about where parts of the film came from.

From New York Times • Feb. 4, 2020

And yet, to adults, the adolescent mind is a mystery—a Brigadoon-like place that’s at once vivid and inaccessible.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 31, 2015