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The phrase "a recent memory" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to something that has happened not long ago and is still fresh in one's mind.
Example: "I can still recall a recent memory of our family vacation to the beach last summer."
Alternatives: "a recent recollection" or "a fresh memory".
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The country also has a recent memory of dictatorship, and a nationalist past.
Then, we're asked to recall a recent memory that makes us laugh out loud.
That was still a recent memory when he decided his Iraq policy was equally right.
Inequality remains the great taboo in a young state with a recent memory of the injustices of colonialism.
With the Depression a recent memory, Americans entered peacetime worried above all about the return of widespread joblessness.
Foot-binding was still a recent memory, yet women lived and worked alongside men, supposedly treated as their equals.
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After all, the predictions of this being a Pacific Century or an Asian Century are a very recent memory.
People in my row jumped; the Bataclan is a painful recent memory.
A more recent memory for most Berliners is the Berlin airlift, when as many as five thousand tons of supplies were lifted into the city every single day.
A more recent memory, though, is of the jeers that greeted Tsonga's tame capitulation to David Ferrer in the semi-finals two years ago.
On the other, the violence and chaos of the last few decades is still a painfully recent memory.
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