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as in educated
having or displaying advanced knowledge or education
the learned professor can speak knowledgeably on a wide array of subjects
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as in literary
suggestive of the vocabulary used in books
a teaching assistant who tries to impress us with all of his learned words
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as in mastered
to acquire complete knowledge, understanding, or skill in
after months of trying, he finally learned the dance steps
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as in realized
to come to an awareness of
the directors have since learned that they should examine the company's financial reports a little more closely
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as in found
to come upon after searching, study, or effort
the police were astonished when they learned the identity of the students who had vandalized the school
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as in studied
to commit to memory
he learned the words to the song while performing karaoke
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Recent Examples of learned
Isaac Avilucea, Axios, 13 Jan. 2025
Although resource guarding is an innate behavior for some dogs, others might develop it as a learned behavior.
—Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 19 Dec. 2024
Meredith Colias-Pete, Chicago Tribune, 12 Apr. 2025
Investigators learned the suspect had indeed obtained firearm permits after the 47th president was inaugurated in January.
—Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 12 Apr. 2025
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Adjective
The bottom line: Football and books — the recipe for a more learned and literate America.
—Isaac Avilucea, Axios, 13 Jan. 2025
Although resource guarding is an innate behavior for some dogs, others might develop it as a learned behavior.
—Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 19 Dec. 2024
Verb
Police later subpoenaed the tracker company and learned it was tied to him.
—Meredith Colias-Pete, Chicago Tribune, 12 Apr. 2025
Investigators learned the suspect had indeed obtained firearm permits after the 47th president was inaugurated in January.
—Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 12 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for learned
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These researchers organized forecasting tournaments and recruited dozens of non-category experts to make educated guesses about where specific events would lead.—
Robert B. Tucker,
Forbes.com,
23 Apr. 2025
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The girls were already much more educated and evolved than the boys.—
Laura Snapes,
Pitchfork,
8 Apr. 2025
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His fellow citizens recall him as part of a wave of Latin American literary lions in the latter half of the 20th century.—
Howard LaFranchi,
Christian Science Monitor,
14 Apr. 2025
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Taking narratives to a whole new level, Split Fiction casts you and your significant other as Mio and Zoe, a pair of down-on-their-luck writers who become trapped in a combination of their stories (sci-fi meets fantasy) due to an accident at a groundbreaking literary tech firm.—
Matt Gardner,
Forbes.com,
13 Apr. 2025
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Service is friendly but discreet, something the Swiss have mastered like few others.—
Everett Potter,
Forbes.com,
10 Apr. 2025
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That that's something that's really, really hard to replicate, and he's really mastered it.—
Dalton Ross,
EW.com,
8 Apr. 2025
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But as Sophie Turner began appearing in movies and TV shows outside of the Song of Ice and Fire universe, the world quickly realized that the lady has real range.—
Kathleen Walsh,
Glamour,
31 Dec. 2024
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The sooner that is realized, the easier all paths become.—
Paige Francis,
Forbes,
31 Dec. 2024
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Agrigento was founded in 580 B.C. as the largest Greek colony in Sicily.—
Andrea Margolis,
FOXNews.com,
21 Apr. 2025
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For those unfamiliar, the brand was founded in Texas in the 1980s and remained on the scene until the death of its founder, Jim Autry, in 2009.—
Lina-Marie Baatz,
Glamour,
21 Apr. 2025
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But, because a musician no longer had to be literate to gain worldwide acclaim, the technology had the collateral effect of sidelining musical literacy.—
Matthew Aucoin,
The Atlantic,
15 Apr. 2025
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Studies show that financial trauma can lead to avoidance behaviors, chronic underinvestment, and hesitancy in wealth-building strategies, even among financially literate women.—
Alejandra Rojas,
Forbes,
13 Mar. 2025
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Foreign objects being discovered in food is a relatively rare recall reason, with more common reasons including bacterial or viral contamination or the presence of undeclared allergens.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
Newsweek,
22 Mar. 2025
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In 2024, more than 100,000 pounds of turkey kielbasa products were recalled after the product was discovered to have fragments of bone inside.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
Newsweek,
22 Mar. 2025
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Pedagogies Asking Scholarly Questions with JSTOR Daily Help students develop analytic and scholarly questioning skills using a quick activity built on JSTOR Daily roundups and syllabi.—
JSTOR Daily,
JSTOR Daily,
21 Apr. 2025
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Here are four ways that scholars can broaden the impact of scholarly research at this particularly moment in time.—
Marshall Shepherd,
Forbes.com,
19 Apr. 2025
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“Learned.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/learned. Accessed 29 Apr. 2025.
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