memorizing

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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

He just flipped open his script, tapped it with the flat of his hand, and said, “This? All this memorizing, all this work? That’s the meat and potatoes.”

From Salon • Nov. 23, 2025

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

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 22, 2025

Quintilian, even as he tips the hat to loci, expresses reservations—wondering whether, being so visual, it was quite so useful for memorizing ideas as it was for objects.

From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith