memorize
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“The Nordschleife allows you to string together corners in a way that you don’t memorize them so well, like you do on a normal test track in a shorter space,” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026
My father’s sight was so bad that he had to look at the music about 2 inches away, memorize one or two phrases and then practice what he memorized.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026
Given the accolades, it seems likely Goldberg only needs to memorize her lines and the rest will follow.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2026
They were going to do everything possible to help her memorize it and record it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 4, 2026
What does he do, memorize a whole page of corny jokes every Wednesday night?
From "Saints and Misfits" by S.K. Ali
Below, the actor from Arkansas, 70, talks about being a mouthpiece for Sheridan, smoking on the job and how his dyslexia and obsessive compulsive disorder influence the way he memorizes lines.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 6, 2025
See that stuff, memorizing that — who memorizes who played this in a movie?
From Salon ● Mar. 27, 2024
No actor memorizes the whole screenplay before you start, but Aria did.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 27, 2023
“I know she memorizes numbers,” Yates says, so engraved on the charm was Yates’s phone number, “in case she needed me.”
From Washington Post ● Sep. 25, 2021
She reads the first half of Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea so many times, she practically memorizes it.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
But AI wasn’t allowed for quizzes or exams testing memorized subjects, said the 22-year-old, who majored in business computer information systems.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 22, 2026
It was exciting because I’ve never — to get on set and to be able to say, like, “We can do the first 25 pages just because we’ve already memorized it.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2026
This refers to the ability to apply learned skills beyond the exact situations encountered during training, using general rules rather than memorized examples.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 28, 2026
It’s the same thrill I get from a few bedrock recipes, the ones so deeply memorized they become launchpads for improvisation.
From Salon ● Nov. 4, 2025
Hattie had memorized a soloist part from Cinderella.
From "The Sea in Winter" by Christine Day
OK cool, but I’m not memorizing a dozen names.
From Slate ● Jul. 16, 2026
The researchers compared this to a student who scores well by memorizing test formats without actually understanding the material.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 30, 2026
Deeper analysis showed ravens were in fact revisiting spots where wolves commonly took down prey -- animals like deer, elk or bison -- suggesting the birds were creating and memorizing a "resource landscape."
From Barron's ● Mar. 12, 2026
It also compelled me to step up my marital game by planning more date nights, taking more walks together and finally memorizing my wife’s coffee order.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 11, 2025
She said it once more, memorizing the order of the shapes: “This!”
From "The Reader" by Traci Chee
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