learn sth by rote
usually disapprovingto learn something in order to be able to repeat it from memory, rather than in order to understand it:
She learned the equations by rote.
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Memory and memories
- at/in the back of your mind idiom
- back
- clear
- corporate memory
- dim
- déjà vu
- eidetic
- flash
- flash back
- from memory idiom
- go
- live
- nostalgia
- nostalgic
- off the top of your head idiom
- photographic memory
- recollection
- remembrance
- rote
- within your memory idiom
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