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Recall or reflect on, as in When I think back on my days as a summer camper, I really had a good time, or As he thought back to his father, long dead, tears came to his eyes. [Mid-1900s]

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Think back to the Bush-Kerry race of 2004, the Thrilla in Vanilla.
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When I think back to growing up in New Jersey, I realize it was a far different time for Palestinians than today.
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It was great to think back on not just that experience, but on why that film still resonates with people.
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The blankness had invited the mind to think back to mornings before September 11, when the mist had concealed the twin towers.
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"I think back on them days and it was all supposed to be so hip," he says.
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Can you think back still further to a time when the house in which you live had not been built?
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Think back over those you have known who come under this heading and you will find no actually round-faced people amongst them.
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Some of them I can already think back and see myself tugging at, and it makes me hot all over.
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I began to feel pretty miserable, and to think back into the past: I just heard Andy droning away by my side.
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As I think back to this transaction I am bitten by a kind of remorseful shame.
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