amnesiac
Americannoun
adjective
Etymology
Origin of amnesiac
Example Sentences
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Daniel Rood gives short shrift to such “historically amnesiac tourism”; with “In the Shadow of the Great House,” he provides a provocative history of the plantation, one that spans continents and centuries.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026
In that scenario the nucleus behaves like an "amnesiac nucleus," with no memory of how it was formed.
From Science Daily • Mar. 13, 2026
That insect, a central player in the third episode, titled “Feast of Flesh,” gives the amnesiac Spear a purpose.
From Salon • Feb. 1, 2026
In Alfred Hitchcock’s 1945 film Spellbound, Ingrid Bergman plays a psychiatrist who has fallen in love with her patient, an amnesiac accused of murder.
From Slate • Sep. 8, 2024
You know, when I joined the Company, I was an amnesiac.
From Delayed Action by De Vet, Charles V. (Charles Vincent)
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