collective memory

noun

a memory or memories shared or recollected by a group, as a community or culture.
any collection of memories passed from one generation to the next.

collective memory

noun

the shared memories of a group, family, race, etc

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Indeed, a decade’s passing has softened the public’s collective memory of Joan Rivers.

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Our aim is to help the film industry ensure that documentaries will deserve that title and that the collective memory they inform will be protected.

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The Lost Cause, a pro-Confederate narrative that frames the war as a defense of states’ rights, “loyal slaves,” and heroic Christian warriors, occupied a central place in the nation’s collective memory for much of the 20th century.

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As I told my children, we’ll always together have that house, our home, as a part of the collective memory of our lives there.

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One reason the passage of time amid these dark moments is dangerous is because of how quickly the collective memory of Americans evolves and can fade entirely.

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