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noun

nostalgia

CEFR C2

a sentimental longing for the past

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Six example sentences with nostalgia, each labelled with its topic.

  • Every reunion tour trades on nostalgia, selling the crowd one more night of the songs they memorized at seventeen.

    Music

  • Grainy film shots trigger a nostalgia that sharp digital frames never quite manage, even when the subject is identical.

    Photography

  • Researchers find that nostalgia can steady people during lonely weeks, because remembered warmth partly replaces the company they lack.

    Psychology

  • The sequel leans on nostalgia, reviving the original theme music the moment the old car rolls back onto the screen.

    Movies

  • Nostalgia sells remastered games to adults who want the exact soundtrack they heard in a friend's basement in 1998.

    Gaming

  • The soda brand revived its 1980s can design to trade on nostalgia, and sales among forty year olds jumped that summer.

    Business

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