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I've seen this while reading text, but does anyone have examples in any other sense? Verbally?

Verbally is how I experience it exclusively as in not like saying it aloud but more like uttering it to myself internally if that makes sense. I should log this when it happens next time. Usually I happen to be mentally reciting/picturing* a word syllabically and not alphabetically and for a span of 3-4 seconds it feels utterly alien. Happens with the simplest words like colour, market etc.

You mean "orally"? "Verbally" means "by means of words".

I don’t remember experiencing semantic satiation while reading, and it’s been awhile otherwise. Used to happen as a young person what feels like often but may only be a handful of times.

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