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half-remembered

adjective

  1. (of a memory, idea, etc) partially remembered or recalled
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Wodehouse never exhausted the counterpoint between Bertie’s slangy gibbering and half-remembered literary allusions with Jeeves’ carefully modulated responses: “Very well, Jeeves, you agree with me that the situation is a lulu?”

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The rest of the time, though, things are pretty but unfocused, like dreams that are half-remembered, not tangible enough to incur real meaning.

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I don't know what's scarier: replacing doctors with chatbots, or the fact that Kennedy wants upend the medical system based on a half-remembered article.

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Ruby imagines she might have a stalker who out of jealousy has been killing her old boyfriends, girlfriends and half-remembered hookups, but as they’re caused by a mixture of natural causes and horrible accidents, the viewer never entertains this seriously; nor do the police, to whom Ruby applies for help, arriving at the station — or “police house” as she calls it — with a box she is certain contains a severed head.

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It comes with a hefty legal disclaimer that "nothing herein should be construed to represent a true or accurate representation of the actual events" - and Blunt suggests his Hollywood anecdotes may be "embellished", half-remembered or "completely made up".

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