flashbulb
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of flashbulb
Example Sentences
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What’s left is a spectral scene, ghosted by the limitations of old black-and-white photographic technology and further heightened by the uneven glow generated by the camera’s flashbulb.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 22, 2025
The Sept. 11 attacks fall into the category of what some psychologists call flashbulb memories: moments of collective trauma about which people have unusually vivid recollections.
From New York Times • May 3, 2022
For me, it became a flashbulb memory, a reminder that art has the power to not only divert people from their dispirited ruminations but also help them reframe their despairing mind-sets.
From Washington Post • Jan. 21, 2022
The Kodak Flashcube—a rotating cube with a miniature flashbulb incarcerated within each of its four mirrored compartments—made amateur photography of the domestic interior possible from the mid-1960s onwards.
From Slate • Dec. 21, 2021
The prints, not noticeable to the naked eye, registered on film; indeed, the delineating glare of a flashbulb had revealed their presence with superb exactness.
From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote
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