TOTAL RECALL Synonyms: 24 Similar and Opposite Words

total recall

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Definition of total recall

as in hypermnesia

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Recent Examples of total recall 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 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 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 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 The fiscal year ending in October 2024 saw 1,908 total recalls, including food and cosmetic products. — Stephanie Gravalese, Forbes, 2 Jan. 2025 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 With total recall of case law, an LLM could include dozens of cases. — Steven Levy, WIRED, 5 Jan. 2024

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Noun

The cruel irony is that the moments that most demand clear thinking are the very moments during which your thinking is most compromised.

— Alfonso Cahero, Forbes.com, 27 July 2026
The Rockies, who rank last in the majors in ERA, do not consider Goodman responsible for their pitching woes, according to a person briefed on their thinking.

— Ken Rosenthal, New York Times, 27 July 2026

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Among his vulnerable confessions include a detailed recollection of his first love, Nicolas de Lenfent (Joseph Potter), who became a vampire with Lestat.

— Tanya Fedak, Variety, 24 July 2026
In the beginning of season 18, he was attacked by prisoners and woke up with no recollection of his identity or his past crimes.

— Caroline Blair, PEOPLE, 24 July 2026

Definition of recollection

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The target date for Saudi Arabia’s economic transformation plan is etched in the minds of every citizen and visitor to the country since Vision 2030 was unveiled more than a decade ago.

— Mohammed Sergie, semafor.com, 29 July 2026
Justin Halpern, the comic mind behind ‘S— My Dad Says,’ ‘Harley Quinn’ and ‘Abbott Elementary,’ turns to fiction writing with ‘Get Lost,’ a baseball novel about talent, failure and family.

— Stuart Miller, Los Angeles Times, 29 July 2026

Definition of mind

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Over 2,600 donors contributed to the effort, and many of those benefactors flooded the comment section of the GoFundMe to share warm reminiscences and encouraging words for Finch.

— Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 14 July 2026
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

Definition of reminiscence

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Further, such a framing of the epic seems to echo its actual creation, in that the poem is Iron Age Greek culture’s remembrance of the Mycenae hundreds of years after a major civilizational collapse.

— Harrison Jacobs, ARTnews.com, 22 July 2026
Surviving Black Sabbath members drummer Bill Ward, bassist Geezer Butler, and guitarist Tony Iommi individually shared their remembrances.

— Althea Legaspi, Rolling Stone, 22 July 2026

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