learnt
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Referring to Sri Lanka's Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission, he said: "We have every confidence in our domestic processes and mechanism."
From Reuters • Mar. 21, 2013
Learnt slowly and painfully, the practices of civilised life are permanently fragile and precarious.
From BBC • Jul. 13, 2012
Last year, the U.S. spent most of its diplomatic energy pushing the Sri Lankan government to launch a credible investigation of its own, through its “Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission.”
From Time • Mar. 16, 2012
"My brother and my sister don't speak to me," he repeats on "I Never Learnt To Share," his voice quivering with what you might call melancholy ecstasy.
From Slate • Feb. 1, 2011
I had Lessons for breakfast, and Sums for my tea, Learnt to play the Arithmetic nicely, And gained all the prizes at School—don’t you see, For construing Doggerel concisely.
From Dick, Marjorie and Fidge A Search for the Wonderful Dodo by Farrow, G. E. (George Edward)
