half-remembered

British  

adjective

1. (of a memory, idea, etc) partially remembered or recalled

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half-remembered

The folk hero of the American Revolution was only half-remembered in Massachusetts and almost totally forgotten everywhere else.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 3, 2026

At its best, when theme and visuals are in sync, “Arco” has the easy charm of something half-remembered from one’s cartoon-packed youth: beguilingly earnest and awkward in equal measure.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 23, 2026

Her lyrics are vulnerable but uncomplicated, as raw as journal jottings, or as slippery half-remembered inspirational quotes that floated out of the Internet and into the forefront of her consciousness.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 19, 2021

New York City is a soup of tropes — half-remembered dreams of movies and cultural references and self-congratulatory songs about the distinctiveness of the city, all of them oddly indistinguishable.

From New York Times ● Sep. 29, 2021

Dinner was a dizzying blur of names and faces, many of them half-remembered from photographs and my grandfather’s long-ago descriptions.

From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs