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a condition in which a person is unable to remember things because of head injury, shock, illness, or fatigue
The concussion left him with amnesia, and he couldn't remember how he had gotten hurt.
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Recent Examples of amnesia
The book opens with amnesia—the author’s and her mother’s—and from this place of unknowing, Rojas starts to examine her family’s history in Colombia, especially her grandfather Nono’s life as a curandero (shaman).
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Literary Hub, 17 Sep. 2025
After waking up from a brief coma, doctors discover that Amy has partial retrograde amnesia and no recollection of the past eight years.
—Samantha Stutsman, PEOPLE, 16 Sep. 2025
As competition heated up with Walmart, Target made what may be viewed by some in hindsight a profound blunder, another case of brand amnesia.
—Greg Petro, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
And then as soon as the political winds start blowing another direction, there’s corporate amnesia.
—Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 7 Sep. 2025
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Literary Hub, 17 Sep. 2025
After waking up from a brief coma, doctors discover that Amy has partial retrograde amnesia and no recollection of the past eight years.
—Samantha Stutsman, PEOPLE, 16 Sep. 2025
As competition heated up with Walmart, Target made what may be viewed by some in hindsight a profound blunder, another case of brand amnesia.
—Greg Petro, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
And then as soon as the political winds start blowing another direction, there’s corporate amnesia.
—Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 7 Sep. 2025
See All Example Sentences for amnesia
Recent Examples of Synonyms for amnesia
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His owner, Hannah Gleason from Oklahoma, told Newsweek that the merle gene isn’t a coloring gene rather than a gene that bleaches the fur and causes lack of pigmentation which can lead to birth defects, blindness, deafness, or sometimes all three.—
Maria Azzurra Volpe,
MSNBC Newsweek,
14 Oct. 2025
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At 4, she was diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa, a rare degenerative eye disease that leads to eventual blindness.—
Laura Trujillo,
USA Today,
14 Oct. 2025
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But some degree of forgetfulness is a normal part of life.—
Daryl Austin,
USA Today,
19 Sep. 2025
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According to her, his reaction wasn’t just forgetfulness but entitlement.—
Ashley Vega,
People.com,
9 Sep. 2025
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Acute exposure may cause drowsiness, dizziness and headaches, as well as eye, skin and respiratory tract irritation, and unconsciousness at high levels.—
Noelle Phillips,
Denver Post,
30 Sep. 2025
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Feel that lovely dog weight, dog density, as your dog settles and downshifts, grows heavy with unconsciousness, and makes the profound noises, the groans of contentment and secret multi-voweled suspirations, of a dog entering its sleep world.—
James Parker,
The Atlantic,
16 Sep. 2025
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“Amnesia.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/amnesia. Accessed 25 Oct. 2025.
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