memorization

Example Sentences

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Her eyes dart up and down in a manner that betrays rote memorization, not scholarship.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 5, 2026

Password managers simplify the process, allowing children to create and store complex passwords without memorization.

From Salon • Oct. 21, 2024

Cursive “enhances a child’s brain development, including memorization, and improves fine motor skills,” she wrote.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 11, 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

Stressing memorization, my teachers implied that education is largely a matter of acquiring knowledge already discovered.

From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez