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as in memories
a particular act or instance of recalling or the thing remembered
a happy couple with many fond remembrances of when they were dating in college
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as in reminders
something that serves to keep alive the memory of a person or event
she gave her boyfriend on the eve of his military service one of her lockets as a remembrance of their abiding affection
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Recent Examples of remembrances
No information about services or remembrances was immediately available.
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Jeff McDonald, Mercury News, 29 Aug. 2025
Jeff McDonald, Mercury News, 29 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for remembrances
Noun
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The Border War gives him good memories of his family and his childhood.—
Joseph Hernandez,
Kansas City Star,
7 Sep. 2025
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On the dark side, sleep patterns may be erratic, while for others, old memories suddenly resurface.—
Valerie Mesa,
PEOPLE,
6 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Some buildings downtown offer harrowing reminders of this dark history.—
Quentin Corpuel,
Kansas City Star,
6 Sep. 2025
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Advertisement Advertisement History offers us endless reminders of this truth.—
John Hope Bryant,
Time,
6 Sep. 2025
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
Noun
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The problems with such memorials go deeper still than that.—
Time,
Time,
5 Sep. 2025
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Those posts have now turned into memorials, with fans flooding the comments to express their grief.—
Amber Corrine,
VIBE.com,
2 Sep. 2025
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“Remembrances.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/remembrances. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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