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Discover LudwigThe phrase "trigger nostalgia" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it when you wish to evoke a strong feeling of nostalgia in someone or something. For example, "The smell of freshly baked cookies always triggers nostalgia for my childhood."
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Was this designed to trigger nostalgia for the feud that supposedly simmered between the pair during their hit-making heyday?
To those of Ive's generation, the new phones were perhaps large and slippery enough to trigger nostalgia for the small, tough phones of a decade ago.
His refrain is the contrast between the innocent ease of the songs, symbolic of an idealised "golden age", that trigger nostalgia even in the young, and the tortured history of their creators, marred by feuds and fear.
The show continued to trigger nostalgia in its fans, some of whom watched its reruns well into the 1990s.
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And yet the show triggers nostalgia for all these things.
His boss, Maj.Cheon Myeong-nyeong, the planning officer for the air force's Media Content Team, said, "Our 'Les Militaribles' triggered nostalgia among millions of people who have served in the military".
His military bearing and dignity triggered nostalgia and even sadness among many Japanese for the values they had lost in the rush to postwar prosperity.
The 45-year-old children's show is losing three of its oldest cast members, triggering nostalgia and ire from longtime fans.
For example, people born before 1930 tend to display positive association with nature scents, and the fragrance of Playdough triggers nostalgia in those born after 1960 [6].
For instance, consider Nintendo, a company that triggers nostalgia for me (Legend Of Zelda!) — since the release of the iPhone, Nintendo has seen its market cap shrivel dramatically, all the while holding on to the console wars (this could also be the subject of a separate post) while simultaneously resisting building software for the new mobile platforms.
(The singer's question about 1980 -- when he still had hair, he noted -- served to introduce "All for Leyna," from that year's "Glass Houses").. Often, the music was triggering nostalgia for songs that offered nostalgia in the first place, as in "Uptown Girl," which he dedicated to Frankie Valli, and "Allentown," about the restlessness handed down by the so-called Greatest Generation.
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