How to Use in/within living memory in a Sentence

in/within living memory

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  • There is not a secretary in living memory that could have done as good a job with those guys.
    — Mohammed Soliman, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Apr. 2025
  • But, because of climate change, this one would be worse than any in living memory.
    — New York Times, 12 Aug. 2022
  • Much of this art form, instead, is retained in living memory, and that is finite.
    — Mark Seliger, Vulture, 7 Apr. 2025
  • Pluto is arriving in your sign for the first time in living memory, and will remain here for decades to come.
    — Tarot Astrologers, Chicago Tribune, 22 Mar. 2023
  • In the villages around Akole, no leopard had killed anyone in living memory.
    — Vidya Athreya, Scientific American, 27 Mar. 2023
  • But the storm that slammed into the west coast of Alaska last week was without an equal — at least not in living memory here.
    — Zachariah Hughes, Anchorage Daily News, 24 Sep. 2022
  • The 38-year-old Brazilian has rolled back the years with her best club season in living memory.
    — Tim Spiers, The Athletic, 25 Nov. 2024
  • Those are the two mayors in living memory voters rejected after just one term.
    — Harry Siegel, New York Daily News, 3 Aug. 2024
  • Wildfires in 2021 were some of the most severe in living memory.
    — Mikhal Weiner, Better Homes & Gardens, 25 Oct. 2021
  • For sports fans, the Hernandez scandal played out just over a decade ago, well within living memory.
    — Alison Herman, Variety, 17 Sep. 2024
  • But Putin’s war in Ukraine may be testing that perceived glory more than at any time in living memory.
    — Philip Elliott, Time, 28 July 2023
  • The peaceful transfer of power has never been in question in living memory until now.
    — Michael Tackett and Calvin Woodward, Star Tribune, 14 Nov. 2020
  • Our political divides seem more intractable now than at any other time in living memory.
    — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 25 Feb. 2023
  • Yet, this bold step forward occurs just as the luxury sector faces some of its most complex challenges in living memory.
    — Kate Hardcastle, Forbes.com, 27 Apr. 2025
  • Gijsels said, however, that the next super-cycle could be the biggest in living memory.
    — Chloe Taylor, CNBC, 13 Apr. 2025
  • This White House has launched some of the most aggressive antitrust policies in living memory.
    — J.j. McCorvey, NBC News, 27 Feb. 2024
  • Partition displaced tens of millions of people and caused loss of life and property that remains in living memory for many.
    — Deepa Das Acevedo, The Conversation, 12 Aug. 2022
  • The die-off, the biggest in living memory, quickly led to an investigation.
    — Norimitsu Onishi, New York Times, 30 Aug. 2023
  • In a city where segregation is still within living memory, this kind of approach feels urgent and necessary.
    — Anna Fixsen, ELLE Decor, 5 May 2023
  • That’s because these are places that, unlike the United States, have truly felt the pain of upheaval in living memory.
    — Bill McKibben, New Yorker, 14 Apr. 2025
  • 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
  • Perhaps not in living memory have its members held so little faith in or so much skepticism of the Big Ten home office itself.
    — Zach Osterman, The Indianapolis Star, 26 July 2023
  • Both expeditions were still within living memory at the time and haunted the thoughts of the temporary residents of Wrangel.
    — David James, Anchorage Daily News, 6 May 2023
  • Swaths of Pakistan are now underwater, after the heaviest rains on record triggered some of the country's worst floods in living memory.
    — Rachel Ramirez and Angela Dewan, CNN, 30 Aug. 2022
  • The virus is setting daily records in Europe as the continent contemplates the worst recession in living memory.
    — John Follain, Bloomberg.com, 18 Oct. 2020
  • Yet, by general consensus, this may be the worst Manchester United team in living memory.
    — Chris Waugh, The Athletic, 31 Dec. 2024
  • News of Disney’s spending plans comes as Tinseltown grapples with the biggest strike by both writers and actors in living memory.
    — Bychristiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 20 Sep. 2023
  • Many Senate lifers seem convinced there was a time in living memory when the institution worked correctly, with the same rules that currently strangle it.
    — Alex Pareene, The New Republic, 4 Mar. 2021
  • Will Smith walking up on stage and slapping Chris Rock at the Oscars was among the most stunning live television moments in living memory.
    — Brendan Morrow, The Week, 29 Dec. 2022
  • More horrors emerged from the debris and ubiquitous layers of mud left by the walls of water that produced Spain’s deadliest natural disaster in living memory.
    — Alberto Saiz, Los Angeles Times, 31 Oct. 2024

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