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flashbulb

f lash buhlb

  • n  a lamp for providing momentary light to take a photograph

  • A flashbulb's white glare froze a busy scene against the black of a tropic night on the Gulf of Panama, in the Pacific.
  • Alan Nierob, a publicist whose flashbulb-bait clients include Mel Gibson and Russell Crowe, says he can't imagine one.
  • Experts have a name for this phenomenon: flashbulb memory.
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  • Even at the end, Duggan full of surprises
    Nothing about Mike Duggan's campaign for mayor was expected. Not the move into Palmer Woods, after an adult lifetime of Livonia living. Not the months of exploratory campaigning, followed by official filing and metaphorical flashbulb popping.
    June 20, 2013 - Detroit News

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