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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a memory from a" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a specific memory that originates from a particular source or context.
Example: "As I flipped through the old photo album, a memory from a summer spent at the beach flooded back to me."
Alternatives: "a recollection of a" or "an experience from a".
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But that image could become a memory from a bygone era.
Instead, the cliff-scape seems to be a memory from a previous build that she's accessing in scraps.
The image looks like a memory from a 1950s childhood, the gigantic, lumbering chair a stand-in for adult presence.
But Ms. Zimmer had never been to Egypt before, at least not in her current body; she was referring to a memory from a past life.
I love trying to sniff out a memory from a bud vase or a favorite song from a case of L.P.'s.
I already wrote a profile of the player here, so I shall limit myself here to a memory – from a game between Inter and Juventus back in March 2008.
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Fittingly, it turns on a memory from credulous childhood, a time when it would not "occur to one of us there / To doubt they were kneeling then".
Dr. Booth thinks he recognizes the word "nightingale," which triggers a memory from his own childhood, but a trick memory, a mirage.
"When I'm connected to something, I immediately see a visual or a series of images that are tied to a feeling or an emotion, a memory from my childhood, thoughts about life, my dreams or my fantasies.
I have a memory from childhood of an episode of The Mary Tyler Moore Show, in which Mary is audited by a cute but obnoxious I.R.S. agent who comes to her apartment to examine her returns and develops a crush on her.
It evokes a memory from years ago.
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