memorize

I memorized traffic lights and places I might get hit by a car door.

She memorized poems such as “Still I Rise” as if she were “taking notes on my impending womanhood.”

“If we were memorizing a poem, we’d try to memorize as best as we possibly could.”

That can be relatively innocent, such as Swifties forgetting most people haven't memorized all the details of Taylor Swift's dating career.

Doctors had told him, “You don’t lie. You like to memorize a lot of facts, and you won’t go for help even if there’s trouble,” Dunn said.