reminisce

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As we look back and reminisce, all of this we will miss.

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  1. intransitive verb To recollect and tell of past experiences or events.

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  • He had come to reminisce, for a handful of interested students, about R. H. Tawney, Harold Laski, John Strachey, George Orwell, H. G. Wells. —  Mr. Sammler's Planet
  • I recall as boys we spent more time rolling on the ground bloodying each other's noses than we did talking or fishing I'm not in the mood to reminisce, Drew. —  New Page 1
  • All twelve survivors of the legislation gather in a hotel room in Paramus, New Jersey, to drink, reminisce, and wallow in nostalgia 2070: Supreme Court Finds “Laws of Robotics” Unconstitutional . —  Asimov's SF, July 2007
  • But this was no time to reminisce, so a moment later, I'd stacked the smaller case on the larger and wriggled my head inside the top case far enough to see out through the holes I'd made. —  Analog SFF, September 2006
  • DUMBLEDORE: When you have to reminisce, just use this —  Netvouz - new bookmarks
 

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/rɛmɪˈnɪs/
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