amnesia
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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
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
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
Meeting a king tends to induce a temporary but powerful amnesia.
From "The Inquisitor's Tale" by Adam Gidwitz
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