In this simple mnemonic example, the clench phase corresponds to convergence and the release to divergence.

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The animals might be mythical characters, symbolic scapegoats, tribal families, mnemonic devices, or perhaps totemic scarecrows, guarding the pillars from evil.

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We all know my very excellent mother just sent us nine pizzas or some similar mnemonic that helps us remember them.

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Mnemonic Photography, run by Steven Bedford and Lindsay Stott, is one of the new Torry businesses, which is being run from a former boarded-up unit.

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Simple reforms can help to compensate for our mnemonic failings.

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As they 'pass the warp' and 'split the weft', the weavers sing mnemonic ballads that remind them of the techniques they employ and enhance the cooperative, artistic atmosphere at the loom.

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How do you fit 2003 UB13 into a mnemonic?

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Besides requiring astronomers to dream up a new mnemonic for their stellar classification, the existence of a grey area between stars and planets reveals the extent to which the processes of planetary and stellar formation are still a mystery.

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Unfortunately, his mnemonic would only work in the northern hemisphere, where the moon is observed in the southern sky with the right side of the moon sunward during the waxing phase and the left side sunward during the waning phase.

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To be sure, Minority Report wasn't the first movie to portray gesture interfaces as the future of human-computer interaction, but most prior examples were deeply entrenched in the traditional mindset of virtual reality and cyberspace common in the 1990s -- think Keanu Reeves in Johnny Mnemonic.

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