1
as in recollection
the power or process of recalling what has been previously learned or experienced
a photographic memory makes taking tests entirely too easy
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as in memorial
a particular act or instance of recalling or the thing remembered
I have only the vaguest memory of the family vacation we took the year I turned three
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Recent Examples of memory
Executive function refers to skills like working memory, cognitive flexibility and inhibition control.
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Khloe Quill, FOXNews.com, 14 July 2025
The wafting of a memory, the rustle of a rabbit through a snowbank, the unfolding of a rose.
—Mary Ann Grossmann, Twin Cities, 13 July 2025
The elder Cook’s proof had assumed that bits of data were like pebbles that have to occupy separate places in an algorithm’s memory.
—Ben Brubaker, Wired News, 13 July 2025
The repast was attended by dozens of Samir’s aunts, uncles, friends, and cousins, none of whom could tell a story about Samir without laughing at the memory of the funny, bubbly boy.
—Aurora Sousanis, Freep.com, 13 July 2025
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Khloe Quill, FOXNews.com, 14 July 2025
The wafting of a memory, the rustle of a rabbit through a snowbank, the unfolding of a rose.
—Mary Ann Grossmann, Twin Cities, 13 July 2025
The elder Cook’s proof had assumed that bits of data were like pebbles that have to occupy separate places in an algorithm’s memory.
—Ben Brubaker, Wired News, 13 July 2025
The repast was attended by dozens of Samir’s aunts, uncles, friends, and cousins, none of whom could tell a story about Samir without laughing at the memory of the funny, bubbly boy.
—Aurora Sousanis, Freep.com, 13 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for memory
recollection
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The book seeks to answer this query by recasting personal writing as a conversation between recollection and amnesia.—
Rachel Vorona Cote,
The Atlantic,
15 July 2025
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Invoking Pettis Norman’s name might summon recollections of Jimmie Lee Kirkpatrick, who transferred from Second Ward High School to Myers Park to break the city’s color line and whose football prowess later led to the desegregation of the Shrine Bowl.—
Charlotte Observer,
Charlotte Observer,
14 July 2025
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“Memory.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/memory. Accessed 29 Jul. 2025.
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