total recall

noun

Definition of total recallnext
as in hypermnesia

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Recent Examples of total recall 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 Instead, the greatest value will be in second-generation applications that provide total recall and augmented cognition. — IEEE Spectrum, 31 Dec. 2012
Recent Examples of Synonyms for total recall
  1. thinking
  2. memory
  3. recollection
  4. mind
  5. reminiscence
  6. remembrance
Noun
  • In times of financial upheaval, the thinking goes, movie theaters weather the storm as the cheapest form of live entertainment stretching back nearly a century to the Great Depression.
    — Pamela McClintock, HollywoodReporter, 18 Apr. 2025
  • The thinking then was that releasing every episode at once was crazy.
    — Kathryn VanArendonk, Vulture, 18 Apr. 2025
Definition of thinking
Noun
  • The state created two of its own memory care units in men’s prisons, a 30-bed unit in the California Health Care Facility in Stockton in 2019 and a 35-bed unit in the California Medical Facility in Vacaville in 2023.
    — Don Thompson, Mercury News, 22 Apr. 2025
  • One of the witnesses called by Morales’ defense team included a psychologist who testified about the effects of PCP and memory loss.
    — Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 22 Apr. 2025
Definition of memory
Noun
  • Returning to Reims frequently references the work of Annie Ernaux, the winner of the 2022 Nobel Prize in literature, whose recollections of her childhood and the lives of her grocer parents have been published in books such as A Man’s Place and A Woman’s Story.
    — Rhian Sasseen, The Atlantic, 17 Apr. 2025
  • And with the Panthers set to pick eighth overall for a fifth time in franchise history in next week’s draft, The Observer chatted with Gross to get his recollection of the experience.
    — Mike Kaye, Charlotte Observer, 17 Apr. 2025
Definition of recollection
Noun
  • Trust in Trump’s economy slips, new poll finds Many Americans voted with their wallets front of mind during the 2024 presidential election.
    — Rebecca Morin, USA Today, 24 Apr. 2025
  • Concerns about such performance reviews were also top of mind at the conference.
    — Jeanne Meister, Forbes.com, 23 Apr. 2025
Definition of mind
Noun
  • Even Rolex’s first new family in over a decade, the Oyster Perpetual Land Dweller, is a reminiscence of the Oysterquartz of 1977, explained Kristian Haagen, founder of TimeGeeks.
    — Stéphane JG Girod, Forbes.com, 9 Apr. 2025
  • The strange story of what happened to it — and how Tan and her friends Jasmine and Sophie look back on it — forms the spine of this inventive and disarming memoir, which is simultaneously a reminiscence of a rebellious youth, a chronicle of a seat-of-the-pants D.I.Y. film production and a mystery.
    — Ben Kenigsberg, New York Times, 26 Mar. 2025
Definition of reminiscence
Noun
  • The funeral service, held at Saint Philip AME Church in Atlanta, brought the city together in remembrance of a life that ended far too soon.
    — Amber Corrine, VIBE.com, 9 Apr. 2025
  • There is also a Luminaria Ceremony, in remembrance of those who have been lost to cancer.
    — Sean Krofssik, Hartford Courant, 7 Apr. 2025
Definition of remembrance

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