The phrase "a memory that is" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing a specific type or quality of memory, often in a reflective or narrative context.
Example: "She often reminisces about a memory that is vivid and filled with joy from her childhood."
Alternatives: "a recollection that is" or "an experience that is".
A memory that is very sweet, and very upsetting and almost unbearable all at the same time.
This brings us to the question: how do you find a memory that is resisting being recalled?
The Jets are fueled by the humiliation of a 44-7 defeat by the Patriots in Week 2, a memory that is so resounding, Coach Herman Edwards wrote the score on the board today during a team meeting.
A wintry landscape wavers through layers of paint like a memory that is already waning, despite the dark branches and the fence that seem to peg the image to the canvas.
The project is intended to help others learn what I discovered by happenstance: that these old, nearly abandoned paths contain, as a brochure put it, "a memory that is important to preserve".
As an example, a memory that is stored in the human brain is an emergent property because it cannot be understood as a property of a single neuron or even many neurons considered one at a time.
She keeps having flashbacks of a memory that's too traumatic to process.
Like many of my most vivid wildlife experiences it was a revelation that only lasted a few seconds but a memory that's lasted a lifetime.
"It was romanticizing a memory that's not really that amazing or that beautiful, but just has a sort of sentimental value," Mr. Rossen said.
"He had a depth and breadth of knowledge and a memory that was just unbelievable," Daniel Christensen, a professor at the University of Utah's Neuropsychiatric Institute, told The Salt Lake Tribune newspaper.
The study shows human memories are susceptible to being modified in a specific time window called the "consolidation period", when the brain is trying to restore a memory that was recently retrieved.
