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Discover LudwigThe phrase "scary memory" is correct and usable in written English
It can be used to describe a recollection that evokes fear or anxiety.
Example: "The scary memory of that night still haunts me, making it hard to sleep."
Alternatives: "frightening recollection" or "terrifying remembrance."
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"That's a very scary memory".
"I do have a fairly scary memory," he agrees.
The bird's-eye views from the museum's upper floors form a poignant, slightly scary memory: an intermittently twitching wreath of supine human beings.
The scientists started by creating a scary memory of a blue square.
It involves prompting a rat (or person) to recall a scary memory and then administering a drug to weaken it (ScienceNOW, 25 October 2004).
Immediately, it sparked a scary memory of a call I got from his brother from their trip to Florida a few years back.
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That was one of my earliest and most scary memories".
This near-tripling of oil prices evokes scary memories of the 1973 oil shock, when prices quadrupled, and 1979-80, when they also almost tripled.
Whatever scary memories the lunch line summons for you, in New York today it can be a surprisingly enlightened place, with whole-grain pasta, salad bars, fresh fruit and low-fat, low-sodium recipes.
Viktoria Baklanova, 40, a resident of 90 West St., a 24-floor residential building that overlooks ground zero on its north side, said that the fire evoked scary memories of Sept. 11, especially since firefighters died.
This process is called reconsolidation, and scientists have blocked scary memories in rats--such as the association between a specific tone and a painful shock--during reconsolidation with drugs.
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