memory-hole

memory-hole (plural memory-holes)

1. Alternative form of memory hole.

memory-hole (third-person singular simple present memory-holes, present participle memory-holing, simple past and past participle memory-holed)

1. (transitive) To cause something or someone to be forgotten.
   • 2009, Stephen Hunter, I, Sniper: A Bob Lee Swagger Novel, page 458:

     since the stage was a classic and had been around a long time, most people still called it by its original and now memory-holed name.

   • 2013, Dennis E. Showalter, Armor and Blood: The Battle of Kursk: The Turning Point of World War II, page 164:

     His response, supported by Vasilevsky and Khrushchev, presented a highly embellished account that mollified the Vozhd and was memory-holed by a subsequent field performance solid enough to bring Rotmistrov assignment as deputy commander of Red Army armored and mechanized forces in November 1944.

   • 2018, Michael Youssef, The Hidden Enemy: Aggressive Secularism, Radical Islam, and the Fight for Our Future, page 105:

     It's possible that the New York Times memory-holed the Pastor Giglio paragraph on its own, without any pressure from the Obama White House. That seems unlikely since it was done in violation of the Times' own policy.

   • 2024 August 2, Michelle Goldberg, “Don’t Listen to the Right. The Kamalanomenon Is Real.”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN:

     But at a moment when the Democratic Party wants to memory-hole calls to defund the police, some who were once turned off by Harris’s record as a prosecutor are thrilling to her law-and-order case against Trump.

   • 2025 May 12, Jonathan Chait, “China Called Trump’s Bluff”, in The Atlantic‎:

     The administration isn’t even pretending that it forced China to pay any special price for its defiance. It is memory-holing the entire “do not retaliate” episode and moving on as if the point this whole time was to get along better with Beijing.