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amnesia

[am-nee-zhuh] / æmˈni ʒə /
NOUN
memory loss
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Recency bias typically comes with a dash of amnesia.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 17, 2026

He claimed at the tribunal in August that he had suffered from anxiety and depression, while a union representative said he "had suffered from a recognised condition that day, known as transient global amnesia".

From BBC ● Jan. 4, 2026

Some "suffer strokes upon hearing the news, others experience insomnia and amnesia", he told AFP.

From Barron's ● Dec. 17, 2025

For me, these bits and pieces of one man’s story connect to the longer and more tragic tale of the American-Afghan century, now erased in near-total amnesia.

From Salon ● Dec. 13, 2025

His swaggering personality is swallowed up somewhere in the amnesia of my childhood.

From "Native Son" by Richard Wright


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