How to Use mnemonic in a Sentence

mnemonic

1 of 2 adjective
  • To make these connections stick, use mnemonic devices that resonate with you.
    — Mark Travers, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
  • To spot signs, there's a mnemonic device known as FAST.
    — Allison Aubrey, NPR, 17 Dec. 2025
  • While some calls do require a mnemonic to remember, others are very distinctive.
    — Alexandra Marvar, New York Times, 3 Aug. 2023
  • Researchers have explored brain training, mnemonic devices and nootropic drugs.
    — Jeff Kleeman, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Dec. 2017
  • These fellows are going to let fly, one last time, before their probable rendezvous with mnemonic erosion.
    — New York Times, 19 Apr. 2021
  • Use mnemonic devices to aid in the active recall for easy application of the new mental models.
    — Jedidiah Alex Koh, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2021
  • In fact, Google designed a flashy tool—complete with handy mnemonic devices—to help people master the basics.
    — Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 24 July 2023
  • The teaser uses music as both a source of emotional connection and as a mnemonic device.
    — Robin Givhan, Washington Post, 26 July 2022
  • If anyone has a clever mnemonic or other means of remembering the differences, please help your local outdoors reporter out!
    — Jaclyn Cosgrove, Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • The mnemonic credentials are easier for most people to remember than the jumble of characters that appear in the private key.
    — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 6 Sep. 2024
  • 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
  • Once installed and opened, the apps open a phishing website or an in-app WebView, requesting the mnemonic phrases that can be used to empty the wallet.
    — Zak Doffman, Forbes.com, 10 June 2025
  • Young approached the nonprofit Capitol Hill Arts Workshop with an idea for mnemonic animal signs.
    — Washington Post, 22 July 2021
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Ultimately, the mnemonic device Gilles employs to retain his phony Persian is turned to another purpose.
    — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 12 June 2023
  • As mnemonic devices, photographs are intimidating in their mimetic perfection.
    — Phoebe Chen, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2023
  • When mnemonic pattern separation doesn’t work well, which is common in PTSD, people may start to confuse safe situations with past danger.
    — Dario Sabaghi, Forbes.com, 30 Apr. 2025
  • Restoring Indigenous place names restores mnemonic and spiritual connections among place, culture and ancestral knowledge.
    — Bonnie McGill, Scientific American, 22 Apr. 2022
  • 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
  • One key memory function affected by PTSD is called mnemonic pattern separation.
    — Dario Sabaghi, Forbes.com, 30 Apr. 2025
  • 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
  • ABCs of bicycle maintenance Fortunately, the most basic bike checks can be remembered with a simple mnemonic device, Gutierrez said.
    — Camila Pedrosa, Sacbee.com, 8 May 2026
  • 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
  • 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

mnemonic

2 of 2 noun
  • This week, Apple launched a new bit of logo animation with a mnemonic composed by Finneas.
    — Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 6 Nov. 2025
  • But Bai/bye is a nifty mnemonic, deftly associating the brand’s name with a memorable tune.
    — Seth Stevenson, Slate Magazine, 6 Feb. 2017
  • Outten has also used Microsoft Copilot to generate mnemonics for athletes to remember their individual roles within certain play calls.
    — Jacob Feldman, Sportico.com, 26 Feb. 2026
  • The Tangem Wallet allows users to add extra cards as hardware backups, so the user’s private key is redundantly stored across identical secure elements with no mnemonic to hide, copy, or accidentally leak.
    — Wyles Daniel, USA Today, 6 Nov. 2025
  • This mnemonic may unwittingly exploit the fact that the hippocampus encodes both location information and autobiographical memories.
    — Quanta Magazine, 7 Oct. 2014
  • Follow the 20-20-20 Rule The 20-20-20 rule is a mnemonic that eye care professionals use to help patients remember to practice good visual hygiene.
    — Claire Bugos, Verywell Health, 25 Sep. 2025

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