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fugue

[fyoog] / fyug /
NOUN
amnesia
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Yet investors didn’t show the same anxiety once trading started, sending the indices into a sort of fugue state.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026

“He’s the Rock of Ages of music,” says Carpenter, who particularly loves the fugue nicknamed “St. Anne” and the Toccata and Fugue in D Minor.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 23, 2025

And the podcast's style is woven together in what sounds somewhat like the fugue state one lands in at a cocktail party deep into the night, where there is and is not an audience.

From Salon • Jul. 15, 2023

What happened to Steve, the Yorkie, during Taissa’s fugue state?

From New York Times • Mar. 31, 2023

Someone had gone completely fugue on the bed.

From "Feed" by M.T. Anderson




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