memorable event

collocation in English

meaningsofmemorableandevent

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memorable
adjective
uk
/ˈmem.ər.ə.bəl/us
/ˈmem.ər.ə.bəl/
likely to be remembered or ...
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event
noun[C]
uk
/ɪˈvent/us
/ɪˈvent/
anything that happens, especially something important ...
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(Definition ofmemorableandeventfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofmemorable event

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Despite its risks and horrors, combat can be the mostmemorableeventof an otherwise tedious life.
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It is a day out, and amemorableevent.
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It does not commemorate thememorableeventwhich it is alleged to commemorate.
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This is considered amemorableeventin the life of a person.
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The nextmemorableeventwas the arrival of the telegraph in 1860.
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Sometimes, and such moments are often recounted as memorable events, they combine two or more knowns into a hitherto unknown.
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It is amemorableevent.
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Finally, senior countdown, during which seniors count down to their final second of high school, is an emotional andmemorableeventfor the senior class each year.
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I believe that in the years to come we shall look back on the development of walkways as one of the major and memorable events of this era.
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Since these memorable events are recalled as occurring more recently, in general people overestimate the recency of events and forward telescoping occurs.
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As we look back to the shadow of our past, we think of the memorable events with nostalgia.
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In his book he gives lengthy accounts of two memorable events.
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Although these parties might or might not embrace the issues that happened during that administration, a child could forever associate the party with those memorable events.
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