in/within living memory

idiom

: during a time that can be remembered by people who are still alive

These events occurred within living memory.

Examples of in/within living memory in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

By Yasmeen Serhan April 16, 2024 8:02 AM EDT A quarter of the way into the most consequential election year in living memory, tech companies are failing their biggest test. —Yasmeen Serhan, TIME, 16 Apr. 2024

Blanksma was the first majority leader in living memory to lose her position mid-session and the first woman to serve in the role. —Ian Max Stevenson, Idaho Statesman, 12 Feb. 2024

At what may be the earliest outset of the general-election campaign in living memory, both major political coalitions appear to recognize that. —Noah Rothman, National Review, 22 Jan. 2024

This White House has launched some of the most aggressive antitrust policies in living memory. —J.j. McCorvey, NBC News, 27 Feb. 2024

Fights within the Idaho GOP boiled over Thursday as lawmakers ousted a senior member of Republican leadership during the session for the first time in living memory. —Ian Max Stevenson, Idaho Statesman, 9 Feb. 2024

Billions of people will vote in major elections this year — around half of the global population, by some estimates — in one of the largest and most consequential democratic exercises in living memory. —Steven Lee Myers, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2024

There is only one way forward, and that is for the West to continue to support the liberation of the Ukrainian people, perhaps the most transparently just and righteous cause in international affairs in living memory. —Boris Johnson, WSJ, 14 Nov. 2022

The die-off, the biggest in living memory, quickly led to an investigation. —Norimitsu Onishi, New York Times, 30 Aug. 2023