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memory

[mem-uh-ree] / ˈmɛm ə ri /




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The El Niño event that is developing over the Pacific Ocean is likely to be the strongest in living memory, the Met Office has warned.

From BBC Aug. 21, 2026

That technique slashes an AI model’s memory usage—such as in a chatbot conversation—by creating a shorthand version of what has gone before.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 21, 2026

It’s a history that remains in grim living memory.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 20, 2026

The framework incorporates a lightweight Transformer architecture designed to account for hydrological memory and delayed effects within mountainous catchments.

From Science Daily Aug. 20, 2026

I suck on another travel sweet, this one guava flavor, and a memory sneaks up on me before I can stop it.

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam

Where the company was once the best-known name in media rip-offs, it now leaves behind only mass-produced plastic and fuzzy memories.

From Salon Aug. 21, 2026

Sir Anthony, 88, was speaking after the release of his first album that he said had been inspired by his childhood memories.

From BBC Aug. 21, 2026

This does not mean organoids have memories like we tend to think of them -- such as recalling something from childhood -- but simply that their past is "engraved" on a cellular level, Arlotta emphasised.

From Barron's Aug. 19, 2026

There were other big brands in the jukebox field—Wurlitzer, Seeburg—but those rollicking-sounding Rock-Ola machines remain burned into millions of memories.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 19, 2026

Natalie stood on her desk chair and put the Mariposa boxes up as high as she could on her bookcase, higher up than her laptop, where her memories would be safest from a flood.

From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz




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