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
When stress or uncertainty arises, couples who have built a history or reservoir of supportive and playful interactions can draw upon these memories to cope more effectively.
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Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 13 Sep. 2025
Those are always kind of my best memories of high school.
—Doug Kyed, Boston Herald, 13 Sep. 2025
The novel’s protagonist navigates loss and her own unraveling, fearful of her own floorboards and hating her friends, unable to get a '90s earworm out of her head or discern time and memories.
—Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 13 Sep. 2025
Still, Fisher holds memories from those two years close to him.
—Nick Harris, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 12 Sep. 2025
New York City, which — as its title suggests — is filled with memories from his early days as a DJ and producer in New York City.
—Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 12 Sep. 2025
The panelists reflected on and shared their earliest beauty memories.
—Larry Stansbury, Essence, 12 Sep. 2025
The 1980s setting, given Stillz’s background as a Colombian, isn’t entirely inexplicable, as the Gen Z filmmaker works off memories and stories of the city that predate him.
—Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 11 Sep. 2025
The Border War gives him good memories of his family and his childhood.
—Joseph Hernandez, Kansas City Star, 7 Sep. 2025
Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 13 Sep. 2025
Those are always kind of my best memories of high school.
—Doug Kyed, Boston Herald, 13 Sep. 2025
The novel’s protagonist navigates loss and her own unraveling, fearful of her own floorboards and hating her friends, unable to get a '90s earworm out of her head or discern time and memories.
—Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 13 Sep. 2025
Still, Fisher holds memories from those two years close to him.
—Nick Harris, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 12 Sep. 2025
New York City, which — as its title suggests — is filled with memories from his early days as a DJ and producer in New York City.
—Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 12 Sep. 2025
The panelists reflected on and shared their earliest beauty memories.
—Larry Stansbury, Essence, 12 Sep. 2025
The 1980s setting, given Stillz’s background as a Colombian, isn’t entirely inexplicable, as the Gen Z filmmaker works off memories and stories of the city that predate him.
—Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 11 Sep. 2025
The Border War gives him good memories of his family and his childhood.
—Joseph Hernandez, Kansas City Star, 7 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for memories
recollections
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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 16 Sep. 2025.
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