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  • noun Plural form of memory.

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Examples

  • These are _memories_, only memories -- but someone is watching them with me!

    Analog Science Fiction and Fact 2004

  • You can't help feeling much of your life has passed, and while our short term memories may be shot, these linger.

    Michele Willens: Face It: The Prom Queen Then.... Michele Willens 2011

  • You can't help feeling much of your life has passed, and while our short term memories may be shot, these linger.

    Michele Willens: Face It: The Prom Queen Then.... Michele Willens 2011

  • “And who have great long and short term memories?”

    The Case of the Smiling Shark P. J. McMahon 2009

  • “And who have great long and short term memories?”

    The Case of the Smiling Shark P. J. McMahon 2009

  • If for Freud and Proust, in their different ways, memory was of desire if what we call memories are enigmatic pictures of difficult desires, then for Banville memory is like an artist without a vision, without anything as vivid as a wound to compel him.

    FRIDAY GRAB BAG TEV 2005

  • Let's roll back the tax cuts apply liberally 8 minutes ago (12:27 AM) Short term gains are all you need when the voters have such short term memories. apply_liberally: Short term gains are all you need when the voters rob126 11 minutes ago (12:25 AM) It's nice to see that there are still some people with integrity.

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com The Huffington Post News Editors 2011

  • Sorry for the rant, these crimals have been pissing me off all week and Rudy being Cheney and the neocons biggest cheerleader this week brought back a lot of bad memories from the last few years.

    Think Progress » Giuliani Falsely Claims That Calls To Close Guantanamo Are ‘Pure Partisan Political Criticism’ 2010

  • So we can say that Google also functions as a primitive hippocampus, the part of the brain that decides which short-term memories are worth converting into long-term ones.

    World Wide Mind Michael chorost 2011

  • So we can say that Google also functions as a primitive hippocampus, the part of the brain that decides which short-term memories are worth converting into long-term ones.

    World Wide Mind Michael chorost 2011

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