memorization

Example Sentences

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At the Candidates, one opponent tried to lead Sindarov away from the common lines that grandmasters tend to study, hoping that he could outwit the 20-year-old in a battle of instinct and intellect, not memorization.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 6, 2026

The group first met with casting director Cassandra Kulukundis, who read them their lines and asked them to recite them back to test their memorization skills.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 11, 2025

Because differential privacy limits how much the machine learning model can depend on one individual’s data, this prevents memorization.

From Salon • Jun. 1, 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