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Recent Examples of total recall
Evidence of his capacity for total recall and my lack of it.
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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
Agassi, Gilbert said, had a photographic memory and an analytical mind that could take apart a match hours later, stroke by stroke, with total recall.
—Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 2 Sep. 2023
Rosenberg, whose mathematical abilities and gift for total recall had been evident since childhood, was not collecting this information as an exercise in memory.
—Diane Cole, WSJ, 7 Oct. 2022
Instead, the greatest value will be in second-generation applications that provide total recall and augmented cognition.
—IEEE Spectrum, 31 Dec. 2012
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
Agassi, Gilbert said, had a photographic memory and an analytical mind that could take apart a match hours later, stroke by stroke, with total recall.
—Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 2 Sep. 2023
Rosenberg, whose mathematical abilities and gift for total recall had been evident since childhood, was not collecting this information as an exercise in memory.
—Diane Cole, WSJ, 7 Oct. 2022
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
Noun
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Not long ago, Ma sent us recommendations for three books that have contributed to his thinking on this theme—books that interrogate timeless aspects of human nature, our complex relationships to one another, and our entanglement with the natural world.—
The New Yorker,
New Yorker,
15 Oct. 2025
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All smoke and sweat, full of gospel phrasing and hip-hop undertones, Brown Sugar introduced D’Angelo as an emotive, smooth-talking vocalist, a thinking, feeling performer in the likeness of Marvin Gaye, Donny Hathaway, and Curtis Mayfield without borrowing too heavily from any of them.—
Marcus J. Moore,
Pitchfork,
15 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Nuno’s habitual talk of ‘bonds’ and understanding feels like a distant memory.—
Paul Taylor,
New York Times,
16 Oct. 2025
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The Taliban evokes bitter memories in India.—
Happymon Jacob,
Time,
16 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Guy Forget, the tournament director that year, did not respond to messages seeking his recollections of the event.—
Matthew Futterman,
New York Times,
11 Oct. 2025
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That Civic was succeeded − in short order to the best of my recollection − by a 1979 Civic that had the benefit of an available supply of replacement parts.—
Eric D. Lawrence,
USA Today,
10 Oct. 2025
Noun
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And while your mind may immediately go to the always sunny beaches in Florida or the upscale vibe of Hilton Head Island, the often overlooked sleepier towns are well worth a visit.—
Jennifer Prince,
Southern Living,
12 Oct. 2025
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Not on his wife’s behalf but, rather, for the fact that he’d been given this luxury, had spent his life tending to his mind in the space that his wife had cleared for him.—
Ayşegül Savaş,
New Yorker,
12 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Here, some of Basso’s reminiscences and observations.—
Rosemary Feitelberg,
Footwear News,
9 Oct. 2025
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The original 2012 version is a five-minute strummed reminiscence that was never released as a single; the now-canonical version, released in 2021, is 10 minutes long.—
Spencer Kornhaber,
The Atlantic,
4 Sep. 2025
Noun
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This portrait became a symbol of comfort and remembrance for her family and the wider community.—
Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
11 Oct. 2025
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The day should not go by without one more remembrance and appreciation of Diane Keaton.—
Pete Hammond,
Deadline,
11 Oct. 2025
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