amnesia
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There’s a particular kind of culinary amnesia that sets in when you start cooking for yourself.
From Salon • Apr. 10, 2026
Transient global amnesia is a sudden, temporary interruption of short-term memory.
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
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
Maybe she got knocked on the head and had amnesia and was wandering around Lewiston, not knowing who she really was, or thinking she was someone else.
From "Walk Two Moons" by Sharon Creech
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