TOTAL RECALL Synonyms: 24 Similar and Opposite Words

total recall

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as in hypermnesia

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Recent Examples of total recall With total recall of case law, an LLM could include dozens of cases. — Steven Levy, WIRED, 5 Jan. 2024 Evidence of his capacity for total recall and my lack of it. — Cynthia Zarin, Harpers Magazine, 19 Sep. 2025 The total recall amounts to more than 2 million cases of doughnuts, fritters, paczki, eclairs and munchkins. — Christine Rousselle, Fox News, 8 Feb. 2025 His seeming total recall of names and dates is generally known, whether relating to history or sports trivia. — Mark Pazniokas, Hartford Courant, 2 Feb. 2026 But 2024’s total recalls so far are lower than last year, which saw just over 2,000 recalls, the highest since 2017. — Vivian La, Chicago Tribune, 17 Oct. 2024 The fiscal year ending in October 2024 saw 1,908 total recalls, including food and cosmetic products. — Stephanie Gravalese, Forbes, 2 Jan. 2025 By capturing moments automatically and persistently, Poketomo echoes long-standing dystopian ideas of total recall, where forgetting is no longer natural, and where the past is always available, searchable, and impossible to fully leave behind. — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 8 Jan. 2026 Ann-Margret has total recall of the tours, from her first to Vietnam with singer Johnny Rivers in 1966, and then of course with Hope in 1968 on a much bigger scale that went from a guitar and piano to a full orchestra backing them. — Pete Hammond, Deadline, 30 Apr. 2026

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Noun

After the Twins dealt 10 players last season and did little to enhance their roster in the offseason, the thinking has been that Ryan would surely be traded this season.

— Dan Hayes, New York Times, 6 July 2026
The right position size helps an investor remain rational, even when market volatility makes clear thinking difficult.

— Jim Osman, Forbes.com, 5 July 2026

Definition of thinking

Noun

Inspired by the Alps of northern Italy, each of the six scents captures a moment, place or object from founder Ermenegildo Zegna’s life, preserving memory through fragrance.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 8 July 2026
Plus, America is one of the host countries, and that means that a lot of the crowd are just locals like me, trying to create memories with their kids but not too deeply invested in supporting the players on the pitch.

— Jay Caspian Kang, New Yorker, 7 July 2026

Definition of memory

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With the memoir now out in the world, LaPlaca’s recollection of the relationship is available for one and all to read — and Weber has a lot to say about it.

— Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 8 July 2026
Taken together, my trip recollections probably qualify me as living proof of Elliott’s traveler’s amnesia theory.

— Alex Pulaski, Los Angeles Times, 8 July 2026

Definition of recollection

Noun

Top of mind was the April 19 killing of 19 people in Negros Occidental, a province in the central Philippines.

— Sierra Lopez, Mercury News, 9 July 2026
The semiotics of the badge signal a sort of hive-mind curation, a global book group that has determined that this book, of all the millions of books, is worthy of promotion.

— Brady Brickner-Wood, New Yorker, 8 July 2026

Definition of mind

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Ironically, this reminiscence preceded my viewing of Remarkably Bright Creatures, the recent Netflix release that seeks to inaugurate a new, regrettable phase in Field’s five-decade-long movie career.

— Peter Tonguette, The Washington Examiner, 30 May 2026
Aiding him in all this robust reminiscence is his co-producer on all the tracks and co-writer on about half of them, Andrew Watt, classic rock’s biggest modern cheerleader.

— Chris Willman, Variety, 23 May 2026

Definition of reminiscence

Noun

The following day, Black New Yorkers continued the celebration with public processions and gatherings, part of a tradition that became known as the Fifth of July — a recognition that emancipation deserved remembrance alongside Independence Day.

— Tunisia Morrison, New York Daily News, 5 July 2026
As the parade stopped to lay a wreath at the Granary Burying Ground where founding fathers John Hancock and Samuel Adams are buried, a man placed a small stone on the memorial, a Jewish tradition of remembrance.

— Catherine Simpson Bueker, The Conversation, 1 July 2026

Definition of remembrance

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