total recall

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Recent Examples of total recall His seeming total recall of names and dates is generally known, whether relating to history or sports trivia. Mark Pazniokas, Hartford Courant, 2 Feb. 2026 By capturing moments automatically and persistently, Poketomo echoes long-standing dystopian ideas of total recall, where forgetting is no longer natural, and where the past is always available, searchable, and impossible to fully leave behind. Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 8 Jan. 2026 Evidence of his capacity for total recall and my lack of it. 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for total recall
Noun
  • As the Moon moves through your 12th House of Solitude, quiet preparation sharpens your thinking.
    Tarot.com, Baltimore Sun, 27 Apr. 2026
  • Quick-thinking in your 1st House of Identity, squares expansive Jupiter in your 4th House of Home, pushing conversations around personal plans and family expectations.
    Tarot.com, Hartford Courant, 26 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Sad memories of last year — when Wooten lost a tiebreaker in her state championship singles match to hand Palmetto the title — are all but erased.
    Buddy Collings, The Orlando Sentinel, 29 Apr. 2026
  • In the wake of Kirk’s murder, and the high-profile punishments incurred by those who weren’t properly remorseful, Kirk morphed into one of the most widespread memes in recent memory.
    Brady Brickner-Wood, New Yorker, 29 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • In my recollection now, none of them seemed concerned.
    R. Eric Thomas, Mercury News, 24 Apr. 2026
  • The pair travel through New York City and along American highways, the journey surfacing memories of Tehran – among them footage Karampour shot in Iran under censorship, her brother’s childhood recollections, and the story of the murder of Siâvash’s band, The Yellow Dogs, in New York.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 24 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • This white chocolate bar is creamy and ultra-sweet, and the great minds at TJ’s were smart to distract from the one-note flavor with crunchy little cookie crumbles.
    Alex Beggs, Bon Appetit Magazine, 25 Apr. 2026
  • By evening, disruptive Uranus enters your 9th House of Higher Learning and Beliefs, opening your mind to new perspectives, ideas, and possibilities.
    Tarot.com, New York Daily News, 25 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • But rather than simply repeat the even-then ossified list of events leading to the invention of photography and the medium’s later innovations, the book uses a series of stories, reminiscences, and tall tales to describe how photography transformed everyday (and not so everyday) experience.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 27 Apr. 2026
  • The movie’s point of view is established with a brief opening voice-over by a woman named Sasha, whose reminiscences of childhood, and of her brother Jeremy, make up the bulk of the film.
    Richard Brody, New Yorker, 12 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • That remembrance of that person also has to wake up, go about their day-to-day life and be okay.
    Adelle Platon, VIBE.com, 22 Apr. 2026
  • Paisley Park, Prince's former home and music studio space, will be hosting a special remembrance event on Tuesday.
    WCCO Staff, CBS News, 21 Apr. 2026

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“Total recall.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/total%20recall. Accessed 1 May. 2026.

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