FLASHES BACK (TO) Synonyms: 31 Similar and Opposite Words

flashes back (to)

verb

present tense third-person singular of flash back (to)

as in remembers

to bring back to mind the scent made me flash back to the days of my mother's home-cooked Sunday dinners

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But War suddenly remembers that Johnny is supposed to be a mole of some consequence.

— Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 23 Oct. 2026
This was the call Hunter Armistead, Pattern’s CEO, remembers getting from his head engineer when the turbines came online for the very first time.

— Sara Herschander, Vox, 22 Oct. 2026

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Alongside church traditions, the album recalls Terry Riley’s minimalism, in which the repetition of musical patterns produces a kind of hypnotic stasis.

— Emma Madden, Pitchfork, 28 Oct. 2026
Device for Exhaling the Tremor (2025), a large sculpture by Celeste Martinez Abburra, explicitly recalls the stainless steel and glass beakers of a chemistry laboratory.

— Shanti Escalante-De Mattei, ARTnews.com, 26 Oct. 2026

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