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  • verb Present participle of reminisce.

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Examples

  • I think the fall puts a lot of us in reminiscing moods, with a dash of melancholy thrown in there.

    Remember When 2009

  • Hit the jump to begin reminiscing about the past 12 months:

    2009: A Look Back – Collider.com 2009

  • If she notices a spider, it means that a phone call from her sporadically concerned mother is imminent and she may begin reminiscing about lost glory.

    HEADLINES Michael D. Brown 2010

  • The Hornets seemed interested in reminiscing in the second quarter, putting on a brutal display that rivaled the ineptitude of that 62-loss, Kurt Rambis-led expansion team of 1988-89.

    USATODAY.com 2008

  • Then some time passes, royalties and nice emails come in, and you think back to that sweet little book and think, ah, shucks, that was a good one … but that kind of reminiscing is fool’s talk, poisonous procrastination, deadline dreams, beer under the bridge.

    Cheeseburger Gothic » More of a Friday Writing Thought than a Friday Writing Blog. 2009

  • But in reminiscing about the things I loved in Clarke’s work, I started thinking about one of the things he did better than almost anyone else: Arthur C. Clarke could write a killer last line.

    March 2008 2008

  • The times when my family manages to recapture some of the fun feeling we used to have, usually in reminiscing.

    Archive 2006-08-01 kittenpie 2006

  • The times when my family manages to recapture some of the fun feeling we used to have, usually in reminiscing.

    100 Things I Love kittenpie 2006

  • Family, friends, and the stresses of modern-day living are the staple diet of weekend newspaper columnists, so too is reminiscing, which is a nice way of saying they long for the good old days when they could squeeze into a pair of Staggers.

    The Advertiser 2009

  • Family, friends, and the stresses of modern-day living are the staple diet of weekend newspaper columnists, so too is reminiscing, which is a nice way of saying they long for the good old days when they could squeeze into a pair of Staggers.

    The Advertiser 2009

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