mnemonic

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His central metaphor is the memory palace, an ancient Greek mnemonic technique that employs spatial imagination to organize and access information.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 6, 2026

For the uninitiated, this saying is a mnemonic device that helps Seattleites remember the names and order of the city’s streets.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 6, 2023

The most popular teachers drill facts and figures into their students with jokes and mnemonic songs they make up themselves.

From New York Times • Aug. 6, 2023

Lists are a mnemonic device, and the list I’m offering in this video discussion of the best films I’ve seen so far this year is, above all, a way of rescuing these films from oblivion.

From The New Yorker • Jun. 9, 2023

Farmer remembered all of his patients—he kept track of their faces and quirks and the dates he had seen them, using mnemonic devices, just like his flash cards in medical school.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French