Etymology

Baader-Meinhof phenomenon

Today it means: A cognitive bias by which a recently learned word, concept, etc. suddenly seems to appear with improbable frequency. Full definition →

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Named in 1994 after the West German Baader-Meinhof Group of the 1970s, when a commentator unexpectedly heard two references to the group within 24 hours. The group is named after two of its leaders, Andreas Baader and Ulrike Meinhof.

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