refresh one's memory

A: If she was Googling a co-worker's name, which millions of people have done out of curiosity or to refresh one's memory about someone's previous employment, etc., the letter writer might have found an article about the case.

Suffice it to refresh one's memory with a few principal events of his life.

We find ourselves drawn pleasantly along in just the way we want to go; all our favorite points remembered, all our own pet phrases praised, and the good things of each writer brought forward to refresh one's memory.

Ah—but how could he explain that any profane literature was necessary in a convent, that, from an artist's point of view, it was requisite to refresh one's memory of the prose of Hugo, of Baudelaire, of Flaubert—"I am at sea again!" said Durtal suddenly to himself.