silicon curtain
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.62 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "We hear also from Huawei’s founder and CEO, Ren Zhengfei, who explains that while the company doesn’t want to exist behind a “silicon curtain,” cut off from global suppliers, it is readying its own operating system to replace the one it used to buy from Google."
- "Pence went on to say that America did not seek a technological decoupling from China. But other parts of that speech—and some of the actions taken by the Trump administration in the months since—conjure images of a silicon curtain descending across the world."
- "The Silicon Curtain, therefore, is not only about control of infrastructure but also about shaping thought, culture, and identity across populations."