memorize

“Three weeks ago you had a young male with multiple gunshot wounds,” the resident said, as if he’d memorized the words.

When his parents gave him a 10-volume encyclopedia, he read the books so often that he memorized their contents and wore off their covers.

It’s the same thrill I get from a few bedrock recipes, the ones so deeply memorized they become launchpads for improvisation.

What was once a coping mechanism became a way of chronicling the quotidian and memorizing the mundane.

He quickly memorized the most important line he’d need to repeat to visitors.