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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Example Sentences

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

From BBC

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

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

When Mr. Amos double-tracks his vocals, his voice and the shape of his melodies bring to mind several generations of singer-songwriters who worshiped at the altar of ’60s guitar pop, such as Todd Rundgren, Elliott Smith and bands in the Elephant 6 collective, like the Apples in Stereo.

From The Wall Street Journal

The tendrils of the tightly strung material connect, both physically and metaphorically, the wartime experiences documented in the photocopied pages scattered about, but they also bring to mind out-of-control cell growth and cancerous disease.

From The Wall Street Journal

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