in/within living memory
idiom
: during a time that can be remembered by people who are still alive
These events occurred within living memory.
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Blanksma was the first majority leader in living memory to lose her position mid-session and the first woman to serve in the role.
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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
When Hollywood boss David Zaslav pulled off one of the biggest bond sales in corporate history to pave the way for his creation of Warner Bros. Discovery, the Federal Reserve still had its benchmark interest rates at its lowest in living memory.
—Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 9 Nov. 2023
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
When Hollywood boss David Zaslav pulled off one of the biggest bond sales in corporate history to pave the way for his creation of Warner Bros. Discovery, the Federal Reserve still had its benchmark interest rates at its lowest in living memory.
—Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 9 Nov. 2023
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