think back
phrasal verb
thought back; thinking back; thinks back
: to think about something that happened in the past
—often + to
Thinking back to my childhood, I remember summers at the beach.
Think back to that night. What were you doing?
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Billy Crystal is thinking back on his formative years in Martin Scorsese’s classroom.
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Matt Minton, Variety, 15 Dec. 2024
On Pete Hegseth and John Tower; the Crusades and ‘God wills it’; a late Michigan great; and more
The nomination of Pete Hegseth to be secretary of defense, and the controversies surrounding that nomination, have made some of us think back to the Tower nomination.
—Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 5 Dec. 2024
In particular, co-showrunner Rashad Raisani thought back to a trip to the 9/11 memorial the Lone Star team took for research while writing the pilot of their first responder series.
—Patrick Gomez, EW.com, 3 Dec. 2024
The interest in women’s soccer has been building for decades — think back to the 1999 World Cup, when the U.S. Women’s National Team captivated the world.
—Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 22 Nov. 2024
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Matt Minton, Variety, 15 Dec. 2024
On Pete Hegseth and John Tower; the Crusades and ‘God wills it’; a late Michigan great; and more
The nomination of Pete Hegseth to be secretary of defense, and the controversies surrounding that nomination, have made some of us think back to the Tower nomination.
—Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 5 Dec. 2024
In particular, co-showrunner Rashad Raisani thought back to a trip to the 9/11 memorial the Lone Star team took for research while writing the pilot of their first responder series.
—Patrick Gomez, EW.com, 3 Dec. 2024
The interest in women’s soccer has been building for decades — think back to the 1999 World Cup, when the U.S. Women’s National Team captivated the world.
—Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 22 Nov. 2024
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“Think back.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/think%20back. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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