memorization
Example Sentences
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The question definitively answered here is whether more schools should be emphasizing project learning over rote memorization and teaching to the test.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 2026
At the Candidates, one opponent tried to lead Sindarov away from the common lines that grandmasters tend to study, hoping that he could outwit the 20-year-old in a battle of instinct and intellect, not memorization.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 6, 2026
While there have been many proposed methods to reduce memorization in machine learning methods, most have been largely ineffective.
From Salon ● Jun. 1, 2024
A vast majority of these courses were instituted in public schools as a way to manage kids with differentiated learning modalities outside the confines of test and memorization frameworks adapted from European university traditions.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 15, 2023
When we had a memorization test, the teacher let each of us come to his desk and say the lesson to him privately, while the rest of the class practiced copying or tracing.
From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston
