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amnesically en · ADV

Etymology

From amnesic + -ally.

Meanings

1. (not-comparable, uncommon, usually) Synonym of amnestically: in an amnesic way: in an amnestic way.
   • Such assertions simultaneously and amnesically overlook the diverse ways in which schools have collaborated over the years (Armstrong and Ainscow, 2018; Keddie, 2014) — indeed, collective professional amnesia appears to be fundamental to making new education reforms work (Gunter, forthcoming), as does derision of the past […] 2020, Steven J. Courtney, Ruth McGinity, “System leadership as depoliticisation: reconceptualising educational leadership in a new multi-academy trust”, in Educational Management Administration and Leadership, volume 50, number 6, →DOI:
   • [referring to author Michele Lynn Harris] Her manuscript Blackdamp explores the cultural, historical, and emotional geography of rural Western Pennsylvania — a landscape once lit orange by the blast furnaces of steel mills, pockmarked by industry, and now amnesically pastoral. She hopes to resuscitate the memory of this place where woods have grown over whole towns, where a flood struck so deadly it caused fires, and where flowers grow Bunsen-blue among jagger bushes. 2013, Artists Beyond the Desk, a subcommittee of the MIT Working Group for Support Staff, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Past performances: Fall 2013–Spring 2014, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, retrieved 09 Jan 2024:
   • […] amnesically remember the arms race, the international embargoes, the military interventions, the suppression of Marxist revolutionaries, the threats of […] 2003, Jana Evans Braziel, “"Profit and Nothing But!" (Le Profit et rien d'autre!): Raoul Peck's impolite thoughts on the (Haitian diasporic) class struggle”, in Journal of Haitian Studies, volume 9, number 2, pages 141–176:

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Synonyms

amnestically