How to Use learned in a Sentence

learned

adjective
  • Brown skin could be cloaked in soot and stereotype or in learned airs.
    Lauren Michele Jackson, The New Yorker, 2022-08-08
  • Raphael Warnock is a pro-choice pastor and a learned man.
    Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 2022-05-09
  • Building those networks of care is a learned skill in and out of the forest.
    Susanna Schrobsdorff, Time, 2021-05-02
  • Good play is a learned language that requires time and exposure.
    Matt Villano, CNN, 2022-08-19
  • The good news is that the ability to anticipate is a learned skill.
    Ron N Hurst, Forbes, 2021-10-22
  • It’s because Tom is a robot, a learned machine that keeps on learning.
    Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, 2021-09-23
  • But despite its success, Ovid craved a more learned readership.
    Esteban Berché, National Geographic, 2019-11-26
  • Closing out games in the fourth quarter is a learned skill that has taken the Celtics a few years to acquire.
    Gary Washburn, BostonGlobe.com, 2022-11-11
  • With age comes learned patience of letting the medium and the moment determine the art.
    Pat McDonogh, courier-journal.com, 2021-03-18
  • But shutting out distractions and staying focused on technique is a learned skill.
    Natalie Krebs, Outdoor Life, 2024-02-07
  • My experience tells me that optimism as a quality is not a learned skill.
    Neil Senturia, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2022-07-25
  • Since grilling is a learned skill, mistakes are inevitable—but, with the right culinary know-how, those food faux pas are only temporary.
    Kelsey Mulvey, Sunset Magazine, 2024-06-20
  • The big cats, however, are easier to handle due to their learned patterns, Wiltz said.
    Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 2022-09-28
  • As weeks passed and more learned of Mark’s plight, the recipient list of the daily updates grew to the hundreds.
    Marina Gomberg, The Salt Lake Tribune, 2021-12-17
  • Some of these places are maintained by sincere and learned people who take this history seriously.
    Linda Chase, Sun Sentinel, 2022-09-09
  • The group moved with the learned efficiency of an assembly line, giving out 400 bags in less than an hour.
    Washington Post, 2021-10-19
  • That means many recent college grads have never paid their own rent, balanced a checkbook or created a budget, much less learned to live on one.
    cleveland, 2021-06-13
  • Or Frederick Douglass, the ex-slave who was a learned advocate for civil rights.
    Harvey MacKay, Star Tribune, 2020-09-26
  • The bottom line: Football and books — the recipe for a more learned and literate America.
    Isaac Avilucea, Axios, 2025-01-13
  • It could be related to learned patterns of how someone relates to pain or bodily processes.
    Erica Sweeney, Men's Health, 2022-12-08
  • Abigail Cowen’s freckled complexion and burnished mane (and brows!) are a cause for learned curation.
    Calin Van Paris, Vogue, 2021-03-18
  • That might well be a smokescreen or even a dangerous learned stereotype, given the way abuse issues often play out in reality.
    Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 2022-04-20
  • Consent is a learned behavior, rooted in the idea of mutual respect for another human.
    Mikhal Weiner, Parents, 2023-09-29
  • Some of the industry’s challenges come down to the need to change learned behaviors, Brugal said, rather than to physical or technical roadblocks.
    Sam Meredith, CNBC, 2024-10-17
  • By the end of the two weeks, the participants–or scholars, as they're called by Kloss–complete their own projects, building either apps or websites using their learned technical skills.
    Zoey Lyttle, Peoplemag, 2023-03-16
  • Once the systems were in place, Optimus successfully transferred the learned skills to Atlas, a 6-foot-tall 400 lb.
    Grace Williams, Fox News, 2017-05-19
  • The learned inhabitants of Medieval Cambridge wrote of how parasitic worms were an unpleasant part of life, and in the process displayed a misunderstanding of the problem.
    Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian Magazine, 2022-08-18
  • The interactive camp will help attendees ages 12 through 19 learn and develop creative arts skills through games and practical tools and there will be a showcase Friday to share learned skills.
    Chicago Tribune, 2022-07-15
  • The series stands apart, though, for showing how Banerjee, born in India, uses a learned idea of American appetites to pursue a received idea of the American dream.
    James Poniewozik, New York Times, 2022-12-26
  • At least, that is the view of the historian and former U.K. supreme court justice, Jonathan Sumption, one of the most learned scholars and outspoken critics of his country’s coronavirus response.
    Madeleine Kearns, National Review, 2020-11-05

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