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Latest revision as of 07:52, 2 June 2024
English
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[edit]Audio (General Australian): (file)
Prepositional phrase
[edit]- (idiomatic) In recent history, in recorded history amongst the lifespan of extant people; events or situations which can be remembered by people that are still alive.
- The Roberts Court is the most politically conservative in living memory.
- Last summer, Georgia was hit by the mightiest heat wave in living memory.
- Long believed to be extinct, the purple-bellied speckled turtle was sighted for the first time in living memory in a remote pasture near Chicago.
- 1941 April, “Notes and News: Railwaymen and Snow”, in Railway Magazine, page 177:
- The snowstorm of Sunday, January 28, was the worst in living memory.
Synonyms
[edit]Translations
[edit]within extant people's recorded history
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