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n. (context idiomatic English) What is commonly remembered by most people, especially in terms of recent historical developments.
Usage examples of "recent memory".
Thus Korsakoff's patients have their greatest problem with recent memory.
Every urban riot, shoot-out and blood-bath (involving guns) in recent memory has been set off by some trigger-happy cop in a fear frenzy.
Life picked up in the farmlands, peasants doing their best to recover from the worst fire season of recent memory, compounded by the most fighting the region had ever known.
He heard water lapping against the pilings and felt a peace he had not experienced in recent memory.
The only thing that comes close to it, in recent memory, is an afternoon I spent last March in a traffic jam on the San Diego freeway.
It had been a troubling year, with a summer that was the warmest in recent memory.
Had any of the others, within recent memory, stood where I had just stood, looking upon the Courts of Chaos, knowing something that I did not know?
Even so, she gathered her small remaining strength and sank back into recent memory.
She passed judgment on Andris, the most promising student in recent memory.
Yes, you have My permission to stroke old-fashioned wax drippings, tracing recent memory.
Barring a recent memory transfer, this one would have no personal knowledge of me, only what he had been told.