from memory
idiom
: without reading or looking at notes
She delivered the speech (entirely) from memory.
She can recite from memory the capitals of all the states of the U.S.
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The student-teacher bond is remembered long after the lecture has faded from memory.
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Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 14 May 2025
After drawing upon this reading knowledge from memory, students use a combination of motor and vision systems to write each letter and the entire word.
—Shawn Datchuk, The Conversation, 6 May 2025
Sadly, by the time the ending — easy, predictable, full of hope — rolls around, the story is already fading from memory.
—Gabino Iglesias, New York Times, 26 Apr. 2025
To do so requires creativity aimed at cognitive or processing fluency to facilitate retrieval from memory.
—Kirk Wakefield, Forbes.com, 8 Apr. 2025
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Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 14 May 2025
After drawing upon this reading knowledge from memory, students use a combination of motor and vision systems to write each letter and the entire word.
—Shawn Datchuk, The Conversation, 6 May 2025
Sadly, by the time the ending — easy, predictable, full of hope — rolls around, the story is already fading from memory.
—Gabino Iglesias, New York Times, 26 Apr. 2025
To do so requires creativity aimed at cognitive or processing fluency to facilitate retrieval from memory.
—Kirk Wakefield, Forbes.com, 8 Apr. 2025
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“From memory.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/from%20memory. Accessed 20 May. 2025.
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