Example Sentences

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How the toy-to-boy communication takes place, however, remains unclear for quite a while, because Malone refuses to part with his aide-mémoire.

From Washington Post • Sep. 8, 2021

After all, if fashion teaches us anything, it is how easy it is to forget, even with a physical object left behind as an aide-mémoire.

From New York Times • Mar. 17, 2021

It can seem sadly fitting that Johnson carries around a résumé as her central aide-mémoire.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 23, 2015

My camera roll is an aide-mémoire, in the old-fashioned sense, a way of collecting souvenirs, which, like any trinket, might be meaningful only to me.

From New York Times • Apr. 9, 2014

With 11 of the 12 Sports Personality of the Year nominations going to Olympic and Paralympic athletes, here is the final part of our guide, as an aide-mémoire for when voting begins on Sunday evening.

From The Guardian • Dec. 15, 2012