memory-hole
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.43 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
5
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Example Sentences
- "[…] since the stage was a classic and had been around a long time, most people still called it by its original and now memory-holed name."
- "His response, supported by Vasilevsky and Khrushchev, presented a highly embellished account that mollified the Vozhd and was memory-holed by a subsequent field performance solid enough to bring Rotmistrov assignment as deputy commander of Red Army armored and mechanized forces in November 1944."
- "It's possible that the New York Times memory-holed the Pastor Giglio paragraph on its own, without any pressure from the Obama White House. That seems unlikely since it was done in violation of the Times' own policy."
- "But at a moment when the Democratic Party wants to memory-hole calls to defund the police, some who were once turned off by Harris’s record as a prosecutor are thrilling to her law-and-order case against Trump."
- "The administration isn’t even pretending that it forced China to pay any special price for its defiance. It is memory-holing the entire “do not retaliate” episode and moving on as if the point this whole time was to get along better with Beijing."