[…] 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.
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Memory-hole
Synonyms for "memory-hole" (3 found)
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Translations
5 translations across 1 languages.
German
4 entries- aus dem Gedächtnis streichen verb (to cause something or someone to be forgotten)
- dem Vergessen anheimstellen verb (to cause something or someone to be forgotten)
- entfernen verb (to cause something or someone to be forgotten)
- ins Nirwana verschwinden lassen verb (to cause something or someone to be forgotten)
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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.
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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.
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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.
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