recollection

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And then you thought that a recollection of this experience was worth sharing with the world?

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Quick take

the ability to recall past occurrences

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of recollection gathered in one view.

noun

the ability to recall past occurrences

noun

the process of remembering (especially the process of recovering information by mental effort); "he has total recall of the episode"

noun

something recalled to the mind

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for recollection.

noun

the ability to recall past occurrences

noun

the process of remembering (especially the process of recovering information by mental effort); "he has total recall of the episode"

noun

something recalled to the mind

Example sentences

And then you thought that a recollection of this experience was worth sharing with the world?

In hindsight, I have no recollection of the nature of the issues the Genius solved.

I'm a bit fuzzy on the details, but this is my recollection of Buttercoin's history.

In my recollection, Redmond was THE most important place, and Microsoft was much more hated than they are today.

Source for the following: personal recollection from when I was an undergraduate at Caltech.

No doctor would have trusted my interpretation or recollection a CBC anyway.

It's my recollection Tarolli didn't develop the algorithm either--he had gotten it from someone else in turn.

[Edit: I last did this in 2006 and my recollection on some of the steps I took was faulty, so I've corrected them above and made it a little more flow-charty.

My recollection is that Diamond's argument is slightly different.

" The suicide thing was covered pretty well recently and my recollection was that the workers of Foxconn were threatening suicide in a round about way of collective bargaining.

I'm sure Tomi Ahonen loved it as a user, but the number of engineers working on Symbian who liked working on it that I talked to was, to the best of my recollection, zero.

"While my recollection of many of these events may differ from Paul's, I value his friendship and the important contributions he made to the world of technology and at Microsoft," Mr. Gates said in a written statement.

It's probably not word-for-word literally accurate, given that it is my ~10 year old recollection of a conversation and as an Irish storyteller I generally don't let facts get in the way of a Narrative.

I am old enough to remember as a kid how people perceived automobiles in, say, the late 1950s, and there is no doubt from my personal recollection that average people rejoiced and celebrated ever-increasing uses of the high-speed automobile, cheered on the National Highway Act by which old two-lane state roads were sent into relative disuse through the creation of a vast network of interstate freeways, and, as a matter of culture, broadly celebrated what was called the "car culture.