amnesia

Example Sentences

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Desperate to escape the confinement of her home life, Dilara becomes drawn to these women, and “The Renovation” delves further into the themes of emigration, amnesia and incarceration.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 5, 2026

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

From BBC • Jan. 4, 2026

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

Another generation called that the “greater fool theory,” but rising equity prices also power an amnesia machine.

From Barron's • Dec. 10, 2025

And okay, maybe I was willing to have a little selective amnesia.

From "Thirteen Reasons Why" by Jay Asher