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amnesia

[am-nee-zhuh] / æmˈni ʒə /
NOUN
memory loss
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Just don’t mistake the current rally for a case of total investor amnesia.

From Barron's • Apr. 16, 2026

Transient global amnesia is a sudden, temporary interruption of short-term memory.

From BBC • Jan. 4, 2026

A World War I soldier with post-traumatic amnesia is identified as the missing husband of a Belgian woman in this intimate epic by the Dutch novelist Anjet Daanje.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 3, 2025

By now the historical amnesia is almost total.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 18, 2025

He’d had enough trouble with amnesia for one lifetime.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan




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