How to Use memory hole in a Sentence

memory hole

noun
  • In the end, fear of retaliation leads him to drop the slip of newsprint down a memory hole.
    Laura Beers, The Conversation, 20 Aug. 2025
  • In the end, fear of retaliation leads him to drop the slip of newsprint down a memory hole.
    Laura Beers, The Conversation, 9 June 2025
  • Still, there’s a long history of July scandals disappearing down the memory hole of the long August break.
    Emily Brooks, The Hill, 14 Aug. 2025
  • It was followed by another attempt at deficit control, the Budget Enforcement Act of 1990, which quickly went down the fiscal memory hole.
    Steve H. Hanke, Fortune, 14 May 2026
  • However the winding structure lends itself to their best impulses, following hip-hop production and sampling down the memory holes of the group’s creative minds, helping II find enough dazzling moments to help all the chaos settle into place.
    Matthew Ritchie, Pitchfork, 16 July 2026

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