How to Use amnesia in a Sentence
amnesia
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One of the two is not telling the truth, or has a terrible case of amnesia.
—Fox News, 20 Mar. 2018
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The drug has been linked to amnesia in some case reports.
—Ashley May, USA TODAY, 30 May 2018
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A city whose own founding myths tell of amnesia, and of the power of texts to resist it.
—Parul Seghal, The Atlantic, 17 June 2017
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Above all, the best way to avoid gluteal amnesia is to mix up your daily routine, says Bang.
—Anthea Levi, CNN, 9 June 2017
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And then Esther thought about her past in China, the 2½ years of her life lost in the amnesia of early childhood.
—Los Angeles Times, 8 Aug. 2019
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Matt Damon is Jason Bourne, seeking the truth while trying to shake the fog of his amnesia.
—Marc Bona, cleveland, 22 Dec. 2022
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Mr. Yang said the bottle’s label will help combat the amnesia that has enveloped the killings on the Chinese mainland.
—Didi Kirsten Tatlow, New York Times, 30 May 2017
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Because of this amnesia, Dr. Fanti had to rebuild his life, step by step.
—Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 25 Mar. 2022
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So white denial, and amnesia, plays a very important role in the story.
—Morgan Jerkins, Longreads, 13 Sep. 2019
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And, based on the slow, intense disappearance of red dust, Mie's amnesia is gone.
—Rebecca Farley, refinery29.com, 26 Mar. 2018
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They're built puke rays and strobe tanks and amnesia devices in an attempt to divine the ultimate weapon.
—David Hambling, Popular Mechanics, 11 Feb. 2019
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Edgar takes a trip down memory lane with the legendary coach who is suffering a bit of amnesia.
—Orlando Sentinel Podcasts, Orlando Sentinel, 8 Mar. 2023
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Then there’s always hope that Brady develops a slight cased of amnesia.
—George Diaz, OrlandoSentinel.com, 19 Jan. 2018
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Things look up for Kate when Leonardo falls overboard and winds up at a hospital with amnesia.
—Randy Cordova, azcentral, 3 May 2018
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Working through his amnesia, he is found to be a much more gentle and loving friend, father, and husband.
—Leah Hall, Country Living, 8 Mar. 2023
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Does historical amnesia play a role in the creation of myth?
—Jeff Calder, ajc, 21 Apr. 2017
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The victim was taken to the hospital where staff told police that the man had suffered amnesia due to the collision.
—Jeff Piorkowski/special To Cleveland.com, cleveland.com, 27 Oct. 2017
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Our cultural amnesia is, in fact, proof of the sugar snap’s rise to dominance.
—Gene Tempest, BostonGlobe.com, 23 July 2019
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But to give any assurances about what Trump will or won't do requires a very convenient brand of amnesia.
—Aaron Blake, Washington Post, 11 Apr. 2018
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By their lights, one of this bogeyman’s hallmarks is its amnesia.
—Becca Rothfeld, Washington Post, 28 July 2023
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Sometimes, people may have a flat butt due to gluteal amnesia or dormant butt syndrome.
—Jacqueline Andriakos, Health, 18 Aug. 2023
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Sam Becker manages a bed and bath store, and when his boss, Jonathan Forest, calls him in for a difficult meeting, Sam falls and fakes amnesia.
—Katie Bowlby, Country Living, 29 July 2023
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Let Draymond Green and the Warriors talk their selective-amnesia smack, and/or continue to poke the King.
—Dennis Manoloff, cleveland.com, 1 June 2017
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The woman, played by Janelle Monáe and introduced to viewers as Jackie, has amnesia.
—Gabe Cohn, New York Times, 22 May 2020
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In terms of actual plot, not much is revealed beyond the fact that our hero suffers from major amnesia on Earth.
—Dan Barna, Glamour, 18 Sep. 2018
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Or is one waiting for me, behind the trapdoor of a future amnesia, as my love for the kind of intimacy that expires as rage?
—Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 21 Nov. 2022
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VanLandingham suffered amnesia for 18 months, lost his sense of smell and had seizures.
—Kent Somers, azcentral, 17 May 2018
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The virus also induces a sort of immune-system amnesia.
—Apoorva Mandavilli, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2024
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Many of the same people who mocked him worst before the 2014 Wild Card game caught amnesia and celebrated him the hardest afterward.
—Sam Mellinger, kansascity, 4 June 2019
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Falling for Christmas, where the Mean Girls star played a spoiled hotel heiress who gets into a skiing accident, suffers amnesia and is cared for by handsome, blue-collar lodge owner.
—Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Jan. 2024
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