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déjà vu

or de·ja vu

[ dey-zhah voo, vyoo; French dey-zha vy ]

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noun

Psychology. the illusion of having previously experienced something actually being encountered for the first time.
disagreeable familiarity or sameness:
The new television season had a sense of déjà vu about it—the same old plots and characters with new names.
the sense or feeling of having previously experienced something that really has been encountered before:
It was déjà vu at the bobsled track today as the U.S. team again claimed the top podium positions.

déjà vu

/ ˈdeɪʒæ ˈvuː; deʒa vy /

the experience of perceiving a new situation as if it had occurred before. It is sometimes associated with exhaustion or certain types of mental disorder

déjà vu

The strange sensation that something one is now experiencing has happened before: “I knew I had never been in the house before, but as I walked up the staircase, I got a weird sense of déjà vu.” From French, meaning “already seen.”

First recorded in 1900–05; from French: literally, “already seen”

from French, literally: already seen

Its old guard pushed back Monday, and I felt a powerful jolt of deja vu: Didn't the Pentagon just run this experiment?

A few minutes later, I understand why it all feels like a round of deja vu.

Much of the rest of the debate provided a sense of deja vu.

Which is great for me, I don't want to do deja vu all over again.

So my fears were not as unfounded as I had thought, was my predestined deja vu, then, real as well?

Perhaps it was only a case of predestined deja vu, or maybe it was something less tangible.

"Just a minute," Mallory interrupted, thoroughly bewildered and simultaneously afflicted with an irrational sense of deja vu.

Going back, when you've been away long enough, is not so much a homecoming as a dream deja vu.

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