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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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Over time, a collective amnesia has taken hold, and the GATT is often presented as the only set of rules that the architects of the postwar peace, including Roosevelt himself, believed were necessary for peace and prosperity.
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Katherine Tai, Foreign Affairs, 9 Jan. 2025
His symptoms included amnesia, loss of vision, and not being able to walk or talk.
—George Nelson, ARTnews.com, 31 Dec. 2024
Instead of a Mandela Effect, there is almost a collective amnesia among users on the social platforms, which results in the same images being shared and then debated over and over, while something from the past goes viral again years after the fact.
—Peter Suciu, Forbes, 13 Dec. 2024
These are impressive capabilities, to be sure, but they are limited by the amnesia of feed-forward neural networks.
—Zachary C. Lipton, IEEE Spectrum, 26 Jan. 2016
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Katherine Tai, Foreign Affairs, 9 Jan. 2025
His symptoms included amnesia, loss of vision, and not being able to walk or talk.
—George Nelson, ARTnews.com, 31 Dec. 2024
Instead of a Mandela Effect, there is almost a collective amnesia among users on the social platforms, which results in the same images being shared and then debated over and over, while something from the past goes viral again years after the fact.
—Peter Suciu, Forbes, 13 Dec. 2024
These are impressive capabilities, to be sure, but they are limited by the amnesia of feed-forward neural networks.
—Zachary C. Lipton, IEEE Spectrum, 26 Jan. 2016
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“Amnesia.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/amnesia. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.
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