amnesia

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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

The task now is endurance: Organizing, documenting, refusing amnesia.

From Salon • Nov. 13, 2025

Guttmann said they were therefore holding a "counter-symposium" outside parliament against what she called "historical amnesia".

From Barron's • Nov. 11, 2025

Many of its most ardent supporters, having developed a convenient collective amnesia about their roles in encouraging the German eugenicists, renounced the movement altogether.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee