folk memory
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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In Soviet times, Victory Day commemorations were more low-key, with the emphasis on honouring veterans and their huge sacrifices, which are seared into older Russians' folk memory.
From Reuters • May 7, 2023
The idea that a folk memory could preserve history 4,000 years old may seem preposterous, but there were also folk tales that gods built the passage tombs to affect the solar cycle.
From New York Times • Jun. 17, 2020
Gov. Phil Bryant last week went further, likening it to the 1927 flood that lives on in books, songs, movies and the folk memory of the Magnolia State.
From Washington Times • May 29, 2019
"There does remain this folk memory of people jumping on the bandwagon of accusations and it not really mattering whether those accusations were true or not," says Dr Nelson.
From BBC • Oct. 30, 2017
I am speaking, of course, of that part of the British folk memory reserved for the second world war.
From The Guardian • Oct. 10, 2014
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