amnesia
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Transient global amnesia is a sudden, temporary interruption of short-term memory.
From BBC • Jan. 4, 2026
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
The millennial icon, as luminous as ever, plays a filthy-rich hotel heiress named Sierra Belmont, who develops amnesia after bumping her head in a skiing accident.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 3, 2025
The task now is endurance: Organizing, documenting, refusing amnesia.
From Salon • Nov. 13, 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
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