MEMORIZED Synonyms: 33 Similar and Opposite Words

memorized

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past tense of memorize

as in studied

to commit to memory everyone has to memorize a poem for next week's class

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Recent Examples of memorized For all the public, open source repos where most of the benchmarks are run, every single model has basically memorized the repo. — ArsTechnica, 20 July 2026 The Bible’s message was seen as not only informative but salvific, and the monastic who memorized its words filled his or her soul with divine wisdom. — Literary Hub, 6 July 2026 Knowing the show is a heavy lift, Ross came into rehearsals with the script already memorized. — Caitlin Huston, HollywoodReporter, 2 July 2026 Try to have your recipe or ingredients memorized or easily accessible should someone have questions about what’s in your tempting treat. — Melissa Kravitz Hoeffner, Martha Stewart, 30 June 2026 Perhaps only Meagher had nearly memorized it. — Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 20 June 2026 The other half is King’s reaction, memorized by fans who grew up in the hopefulness of the Rose years. — Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 11 June 2026 For decades, getting the most out of the terminal required that traders memorized an arcane and bewildering set of three- and four-letter keyboard commands and shortcuts, each of which called up a different feature, function, or dataset. — Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 28 Apr. 2026 Shailene Woodley’s Paradise character Annie may have memorized every nook and cranny of Elvis Presley’s Memphis estate Graceland, but the actress herself hasn’t made the pilgrimage there in the wake of her affecting performance in the show’s second season. — Scott Huver, Deadline, 26 Apr. 2026

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Semax, a peptide containing seven amino acids, has been studied for its potential effects on the central nervous system.

— Jacqueline Howard, CNN Money, 31 July 2026
His Zoroaster, built in 1878, is widely considered the first such vessel to be commercially successful, and its design was studied and replicated.

— Drew Goins, The Atlantic, 30 July 2026

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Soldiers in the Guard’s Counterdrug Program and members of the 10th Civil Support Team learned to use the system, built by Anduril, to spot and target drones.

— Zita Ballinger Fletcher, Forbes.com, 1 Aug. 2026
The federal government told ICE agents to preserve it in November and learned it had been lost in February.

— Julia Coin, Charlotte Observer, 1 Aug. 2026

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