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bring to mind

Idioms  

  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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Still, those words about a safe place bring to mind my friend Beata and the difference stability made to her life.

From BBC • Dec. 29, 2025

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

Perhaps the fissure should bring to mind Nordic depression, or familial misadventures in communication.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 6, 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

The ache and the beauty of Billie’s words captivate me, despite the ugly images they bring to mind.

From "X: A Novel" by Ilyasah Shabazz

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