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Example Sentences

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Despite this sequel’s thin and rote stretches, it once again closes strong with a few images that will stick in your head for at least a week or two.

From Los Angeles Times

With repetition — touring, performing live — songs don’t necessarily become easier for her to emotionally perform, and nor are they ever by rote.

From Los Angeles Times

Looking ahead, rote white-collar work will be “displaced” by work requiring greater human interaction and more decision-making, according to Krishna.

From The Wall Street Journal

I pick up my headpiece; at least my body remembers how to do that by rote.

From Literature

Her eyes dart up and down in a manner that betrays rote memorization, not scholarship.

From The Wall Street Journal