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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
memorize .
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Examples
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Neuroscience is even teaching us that the brain memorizes and uses painful experiences in ways that can be particularly pernicious (and no amount of saying 'this is artifice' impacts the intensity of that initial encounter with the material which reads as experience, because theses are two different processes occurring in different parts of the brain, at two different times apparently).
Self-Protection 2009
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May I add that while Quinn "memorizes" the playbook, he should also practice throwing more accurately.
Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local Denver Defense 2010
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It means that for any given arguments to a method, the method 'memorizes' the return value so it doesn't have to be recomputed
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It means that for any given arguments to a method, the method 'memorizes' the return value so it doesn't have to be recomputed oh, it's a simple idea.
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When someone "memorizes" information (as less-aspiring test-bound students often do), then they have amassed knowledge.
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When someone "memorizes" information (as less-aspiring test-bound students often do), then they have amassed knowledge.
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There also has never been an oral custodian, someone who memorizes all the previous knowledge base.
The Bushman Way of Tracking God PhD Bradford Keeney 2010
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She memorizes so much dialogue and on top of that goes to school.
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July 23rd, 2009 10: 13 am ET since CNN won't let up reply to the article on Obama and the wrong reporter that stood up shows the Obama gets the questions from reporters the night before and then memorizes the answers and then calls on the reporter at the press conference.
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Gray will talk about anything that's vaguely connected to whatever 'question' was posed, dropping so many statistics and figures you'll think he memorizes city data for fun.
DeMorning DeBonis: Oct. 12, 2010 Mike DeBonis 2010
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