as in to learn
to commit to memory
everyone has to memorize a poem for next week's class
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That way, the pilot will have a transcript of all the information conveyed by air traffic controllers, instead of having to interpret and memorize it on the fly (no pun intended).
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Ben Coxworth, New Atlas, 15 Oct. 2024
He was dedicated to memorizing the Quran and had been a software engineering student before the war who had graduated at the top of his high school class.
—Doha Madani, NBC News, 17 Oct. 2024
Jobs had to memorize an exact sequence of touches and swipes for the demo or the phone would have crashed.
—Dev Patnaik, Forbes, 12 Oct. 2024
The White House national security adviser is a most serious person and, by most accounts, always has been—a Minnesota kid who had memorized world capitals before the age of 14 and, by 35, had traveled to 112 of those countries as then secretary of state Hillary Clinton’s close adviser.
—Issie Lapowsky, WIRED, 10 Oct. 2024
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Ben Coxworth, New Atlas, 15 Oct. 2024
He was dedicated to memorizing the Quran and had been a software engineering student before the war who had graduated at the top of his high school class.
—Doha Madani, NBC News, 17 Oct. 2024
Jobs had to memorize an exact sequence of touches and swipes for the demo or the phone would have crashed.
—Dev Patnaik, Forbes, 12 Oct. 2024
The White House national security adviser is a most serious person and, by most accounts, always has been—a Minnesota kid who had memorized world capitals before the age of 14 and, by 35, had traveled to 112 of those countries as then secretary of state Hillary Clinton’s close adviser.
—Issie Lapowsky, WIRED, 10 Oct. 2024
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“Memorize.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/memorize. Accessed 18 Dec. 2024.
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