as in recollections
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 memories
The Border War gives him good memories of his family and his childhood.
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Joseph Hernandez, Kansas City Star, 7 Sep. 2025
On the dark side, sleep patterns may be erratic, while for others, old memories suddenly resurface.
—Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 6 Sep. 2025
Slow Down and Enjoy Schanen has been attending the event for over 20 years and cherishes the memories made while finding treasures.
—Jennifer Prince, Southern Living, 6 Sep. 2025
For Chondwe, that conjured up nightmarish memories of the 1980s, '90s and early 2000s, when HIV had decimated his community.
—Gabrielle Emanuel, NPR, 6 Sep. 2025
The marathon meeting evoked memories of a past era of contentious county budgets in the wake of the 2008 housing crash, when collapsed real estate values caused a severe revenue crunch for Miami-Dade.
—Douglas Hanks, Miami Herald, 5 Sep. 2025
Were these factual scenes, or are these, through Lionel’s eyes, his memories of that summer?
—Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 5 Sep. 2025
While our regions couldn't be more different, that time together sparked my curiosity and holds meaningful memories at the start of my winemaking journey.
—Jenn Rice, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2025
Alejandra Enciso-Dardashti, creator of Desde Otro Cero, a bilingual website dedicated to the performing arts, has been reviewing plays at the Old Town Theatre on and off for 13 years and has special memories of the old barn.
—David J. Bohnet, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Aug. 2025
Joseph Hernandez, Kansas City Star, 7 Sep. 2025
On the dark side, sleep patterns may be erratic, while for others, old memories suddenly resurface.
—Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 6 Sep. 2025
Slow Down and Enjoy Schanen has been attending the event for over 20 years and cherishes the memories made while finding treasures.
—Jennifer Prince, Southern Living, 6 Sep. 2025
For Chondwe, that conjured up nightmarish memories of the 1980s, '90s and early 2000s, when HIV had decimated his community.
—Gabrielle Emanuel, NPR, 6 Sep. 2025
The marathon meeting evoked memories of a past era of contentious county budgets in the wake of the 2008 housing crash, when collapsed real estate values caused a severe revenue crunch for Miami-Dade.
—Douglas Hanks, Miami Herald, 5 Sep. 2025
Were these factual scenes, or are these, through Lionel’s eyes, his memories of that summer?
—Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 5 Sep. 2025
While our regions couldn't be more different, that time together sparked my curiosity and holds meaningful memories at the start of my winemaking journey.
—Jenn Rice, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2025
Alejandra Enciso-Dardashti, creator of Desde Otro Cero, a bilingual website dedicated to the performing arts, has been reviewing plays at the Old Town Theatre on and off for 13 years and has special memories of the old barn.
—David J. Bohnet, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for memories
recollections
Noun
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Her ancestor’s analytic model discouraged self-revelation by the therapist, but Freud often meets her guests’ excavations of desire and vulnerability with her own candid recollections.—
Rebecca Mead,
New Yorker,
8 Sep. 2025
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Like her other books comprising private connections and recollections, Romano preferred to call Le parole a novel rather than a memoir or autobiography, seeing the distinction between fact and fiction as an irrelevant one for literature.—
Brian Robert Moore
September 5,
Literary Hub,
5 Sep. 2025
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“Memories.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/memories. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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