How to Use mnemonic in a Sentence

mnemonic

1 of 2 adjective

• The mnemonic response grows stronger with every encounter.
  — Apoorva Mandavilli New York Times, Star Tribune, 30 July 2020
• Use mnemonic devices to aid in the active recall for easy application of the new mental models.
  — Jedidiah Alex Koh, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2021
• The teaser uses music as both a source of emotional connection and as a mnemonic device.
  — Robin Givhan, Washington Post, 26 July 2022
• Zane Fyfe, who is in his sixth year as coach at Apponequet, uses words like animals, or mascots, or mnemonic phrases.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 24 Mar. 2021
• These fellows are going to let fly, one last time, before their probable rendezvous with mnemonic erosion.
  — New York Times, 19 Apr. 2021
• Young approached the nonprofit Capitol Hill Arts Workshop with an idea for mnemonic animal signs.
  — Washington Post, 22 July 2021
• There’s a mnemonic quality to this concoction — we’re reminded of hot summers at 60′s-style diners, or that one Bruce Springsteen song.
  — Grooming Playbook, The Salt Lake Tribune, 10 May 2022
• Researchers have explored brain training, mnemonic devices and nootropic drugs.
  — Jeff Kleeman, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Dec. 2017
• Maguire found that during the period of intense navigational and mnemonic effort involved in studying for the Knowledge, the hippocampi of the trainee drivers grew.
  — Robert MacFarlane, The New York Review of Books, 15 June 2021
• But Lionel also has a near-perfect echoic memory for words and voices, details and clues erupting in involuntary bursts of sing-songy rhymes that serve, in part, as mnemonic devices.
  — Katie Walsh, chicagotribune.com, 31 Oct. 2019
• Under these conditions test subjects are generally unable to come up with mnemonic devices or use such memory aids as kitchen timers or to-do lists.
  — Nicola Ballhausen, Scientific American, 7 Mar. 2018
• In advertising materials for the film, the studio used repetitive mnemonic devices to get people to not only hear but also remember the tricky-to-say word.
  — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 15 Mar. 2023
• These items helped their families to survive but also served as mnemonic devices that combated the erasure of their histories, their existence.
  — Washington Post, 9 July 2021
• The strongest effect that the family has on Leda is mnemonic: seeing young mothers with young daughters sparks remembrances of her own earlier years, nearly two decades ago, when her two daughters (now in their twenties) were small children.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 3 Jan. 2022
• The technique, a famous mnemonic device attributed to the ancient Greek poet Simonides, involves imagining a familiar space and mentally assigning a portion of the content that is to be memorized its own place.
  — Nathan Goldman, The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2023
• If dwarf planets were to be reclassified as planets, as advocates for restoring Pluto to full planethood status hope to do, forget about ever trying to devise a workable mnemonic device.
  — Kenneth Chang, New York Times, 13 July 2016
• For starters, lists are mnemonic, gathering things to remember, and also judgmental, asserting what’s worth remembering.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 5 Dec. 2022
• The International Astronomical Union even formally recognizes the latter mnemonic device, while also pointing out the five dwarf planets that exist among the eight major ones.
  — Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 12 Sep. 2022
• For the first time, the researchers used brain imaging to reveal that practicing these kinds of mnemonic techniques can actually alter crucial connections to make memorizers’ brains more resemble those of the world's memory champions.
  — Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian, 13 Mar. 2017
• For the first time, the researchers used brain imaging to reveal that practicing these kinds of mnemonic techniques can actually alter crucial connections to make memorizers’ brains more resemble those of the world's memory champions.
  — Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian, 13 Mar. 2017
• This generally means going from the particular to the general (as enshrined in the mnemonic PIG, for particular-inductive-general).
  — Quanta Magazine, 8 June 2017
• Some of this is World Memory Championships territory, with monks using mnemonic devices and multisensory prompts to stuff their brains with Biblical texts and holy meditations.
  — Casey Cep, The New Yorker, 23 Jan. 2023
• Restoring Indigenous place names restores mnemonic and spiritual connections among place, culture and ancestral knowledge.
  — Bonnie McGill, Scientific American, 22 Apr. 2022
• My alliterative schema for the various listening environments, designed to be annoyingly mnemonic, is corner, club, cathedral, and cocoon.
  — Sasha Frere-Jones, Harper’s Magazine , 9 Nov. 2022
• Utilizing a mnemonic learning device in her Earth Science course, Lusby-Brown incorporated visual, auditory and interactive components to teach her students about the different celestial bodies of the solar system.
  — C.r. Walker, chicagotribune.com, 28 Feb. 2022
• The mnemonic response grows stronger with every encounter.
  — Apoorva Mandavilli New York Times, Star Tribune, 30 July 2020
• Use mnemonic devices to aid in the active recall for easy application of the new mental models.
  — Jedidiah Alex Koh, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2021
• The teaser uses music as both a source of emotional connection and as a mnemonic device.
  — Robin Givhan, Washington Post, 26 July 2022
• Zane Fyfe, who is in his sixth year as coach at Apponequet, uses words like animals, or mascots, or mnemonic phrases.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 24 Mar. 2021
• These fellows are going to let fly, one last time, before their probable rendezvous with mnemonic erosion.
  — New York Times, 19 Apr. 2021

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mnemonic

2 of 2 noun

• Eyüp sat in front of me, framed against a background of flower sellers and A.T.M.s, a mnemonic in the flesh.
  — New York Times, 12 May 2022
• There's even a quick mnemonic to help you out: sometimes, always, never.
  — Jonathan Evans, Esquire, 30 June 2017
• Which seems to me like the ultimate takeaway: Google doesn't need to engineer mnemonics into its 2FA codes.
  — Robbie Gonzalez, WIRED, 21 Apr. 2018
• But Bai/bye is a nifty mnemonic, deftly associating the brand’s name with a memorable tune.
  — Seth Stevenson, Slate Magazine, 6 Feb. 2017
• Another hint that websites can offer is what Dr. Juang calls a visual mnemonic—a simple drawing that suggests to the user what their passphrase is.
  — Henry Williams, WSJ, 18 Sep. 2018
• Earl helped her fellow students break down the biological processes into mnemonics that would help them remember.
  — Karen Herzog, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 16 Jan. 2018
• The mnemonic that emergency room doctors use to quickly evaluate patients is A.B.C. — airway, breathing, circulation.
  — New York Times, 9 Aug. 2019
• This mnemonic may unwittingly exploit the fact that the hippocampus encodes both location information and autobiographical memories.
  — Quanta Magazine, 7 Oct. 2014
• Eyüp sat in front of me, framed against a background of flower sellers and A.T.M.s, a mnemonic in the flesh.
  — New York Times, 12 May 2022
• There's even a quick mnemonic to help you out: sometimes, always, never.
  — Jonathan Evans, Esquire, 30 June 2017
• Which seems to me like the ultimate takeaway: Google doesn't need to engineer mnemonics into its 2FA codes.
  — Robbie Gonzalez, WIRED, 21 Apr. 2018
• But Bai/bye is a nifty mnemonic, deftly associating the brand’s name with a memorable tune.
  — Seth Stevenson, Slate Magazine, 6 Feb. 2017
• Another hint that websites can offer is what Dr. Juang calls a visual mnemonic—a simple drawing that suggests to the user what their passphrase is.
  — Henry Williams, WSJ, 18 Sep. 2018
• Earl helped her fellow students break down the biological processes into mnemonics that would help them remember.
  — Karen Herzog, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 16 Jan. 2018
• The mnemonic that emergency room doctors use to quickly evaluate patients is A.B.C. — airway, breathing, circulation.
  — New York Times, 9 Aug. 2019
• This mnemonic may unwittingly exploit the fact that the hippocampus encodes both location information and autobiographical memories.
  — Quanta Magazine, 7 Oct. 2014

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