bring to mind

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1. Cause to be remembered, as in The film brought to mind the first time I ever climbed a mountain. This idiom, first recorded in 1433, appears in Robert Burns's familiar “Auld Lang Syne” (1788), in which the poet asks if old times should never be brought to mind. Also see come to mind.

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bring to mind

These images are no mere jeremiads but chilling depictions of suffering—both mental and physical—that bring to mind the most haunting works of Otto Dix, Max Beckmann and Käthe Kollwitz.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 10, 2026

For investors, high-quality companies bring to mind financial resilience—just the thing today to offset concerns over runaway artificial-intelligence spending, or a recent rash of flaky business models, like companies that raise cash to hoard crypto.

From Barron's ● Dec. 26, 2025

Those stereotypes might bring to mind images of black hats, broomsticks and cackling over cauldrons, common in much media.

From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2025

The gleaming textures, precise drums and razor-sharp guitar work of that dying factory town bring to mind an abandoned, chrome-plated future that politicians never even bothered to promise in the one-time nexus of the South.

From Salon ● Jun. 28, 2025

I stared at the wheel, trying to bring to mind the right steps to getting the van to work.

From "The Darkest Minds" by Alexandra Bracken

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