memorize

My father’s sight was so bad that he had to look at the music about 2 inches away, memorize one or two phrases and then practice what he memorized.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026

And because the storyline called for employees who already knew one another, actors had to memorize years of shared backstory in case Norman asked about their history.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 26, 2026

A simple place to start would be to memorize the best two-word speech to never appear in a major motion picture: Do better.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 2026

Under the current system, catchers and pitchers are expected to memorize those numbers and then recall them perfectly in the heat of competition.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 15, 2026

I made a vague effort to remember who had painted or composed what, but I didn’t memorize spelling.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover

Below, the actor from Arkansas, 70, talks about being a mouthpiece for Sheridan, smoking on the job and how his dyslexia and obsessive compulsive disorder influence the way he memorizes lines.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 6, 2025

See that stuff, memorizing that — who memorizes who played this in a movie?

From Salon ● Mar. 27, 2024

No actor memorizes the whole screenplay before you start, but Aria did.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 27, 2023

He has trouble concentrating but memorizes enormous amounts of information and sits for hours to produce intricate sketches.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 21, 2021

She reads the first half of Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea so many times, she practically memorizes it.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

But AI wasn’t allowed for quizzes or exams testing memorized subjects, said the 22-year-old, who majored in business computer information systems.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 22, 2026

“I memorized every single vehicle in those videos,” he said, a note of pride in his voice as he double-clicked on a file and pointed at the Voxy.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 30, 2026

This refers to the ability to apply learned skills beyond the exact situations encountered during training, using general rules rather than memorized examples.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 28, 2026

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.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 7, 2025

He had memorized his instructions: Carrying a local newspaper, the Nieuwe Rotterdamse Courant, in his right hand, he walked slowly to a small square at the end of a long boulevard.

From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau

OK cool, but I’m not memorizing a dozen names.

From Slate ● Jul. 16, 2026

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

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

I imagine it’s someone I haven’t met yet, someone I somehow missed while I was hiding out in the ornithology stacks and they were tearing through poetry and memorizing lines.

From "Sparrow" by Sarah Moon