Example Sentences

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In a Scientific American column in 2016, he suggested an elaborate method to become a super pi memorizer involving the periodic table.

From Scientific American • Apr. 20, 2020

I wrote some dialogue, and unless you’re some memorizer of the box-set collection, you’re not gonna know that it’s not “Seinfeld.”

From Salon • Jun. 6, 2012

As a child record-book memorizer, I feel compelled to remind you that the Boston Red Sox purchased Ruth from the Baltimore club of the International League after the 1917 season.

From Time Magazine Archive

A family that boasts about Fizz’s only male cousin: a Qur’an memorizer, a beacon of light for all youth.

From "Saints and Misfits" by S.K. Ali

And yet there again, the Neurocase paper I cite above on the prodigious memorizer of 7t describes how the subject’s “self-report indicates that imagining affective situations and high emotional content is critical for successful recall.”

From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith