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learned

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verb

past tense of learn
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Recent Examples of learned
Adjective
Scientists have long theorized that dogs possess an innate connection to humans that they are born with and predates any training or learned behaviors. Russel Honoré, Newsweek, 5 Mar. 2025 The scientists believe both these factors hint that this form of conflict resolution is a learned one, which is then adopted by younger apes. New Atlas, 4 Mar. 2025
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 See All Example Sentences for learned
Recent Examples of Synonyms for learned
Adjective
  • Often, CISOs must make educated guesses about the frequency and impact of digital threats, which can undermine their credibility in front of the board.
    Steve Carter, Forbes.com, 18 June 2025
  • Kennedy has lauded the new ACIP appointees as a team of educated and capable advisers.
    Ashleigh Fields, The Hill, 13 June 2025
Adjective
  • Schiffman previously served as a partner at Intellectual Property Group and as head of literary property divisions at both Gersh and William Morris Endeavor before joining Echo Lake.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 27 June 2025
  • Developers feed their chatbot models on a torrent of material, much of it scraped from the web — everything from distinguished literary works to random babbling — as well as collections holding millions of books, articles, scientific papers and the like, some of it copyrighted.
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 27 June 2025
Verb
  • Service is friendly but discreet, something the Swiss have mastered like few others.
    Everett Potter, Forbes.com, 10 Apr. 2025
  • That that's something that's really, really hard to replicate, and he's really mastered it.
    Dalton Ross, EW.com, 8 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • 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
  • The sooner that is realized, the easier all paths become.
    Paige Francis, Forbes, 31 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • In 1932, inventor Arthur Schmitt founded a company to produce electrical connector components for radios in Chicago.
    Josh Brown,Sean Russo, CNBC, 20 June 2025
  • Walmart, headquartered in Bentonville, founded the festival with inclusion in mind.
    Matthew Carey, Deadline, 20 June 2025
Adjective
  • For our enslaved ancestors who risked being whipped or sold for knowing how to read or write, simply being literate was a subversive act of rebellion and militant self-expression.
    A'Lelia Bundles June 11, Literary Hub, 11 June 2025
  • This imagery has been done to death across the country and pop histories in which Cyrus is literate.
    Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 3 June 2025
Verb
  • 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
  • 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
Adjective
  • The Schomburg Center has long been the heart of Harlem’s ongoing Renaissance—from the 1920s until the present moment —the neighborhood teems with an energy of artistic and scholarly abundance that, in turn, shapes political and cultural discourse not just in New York City but across the country.
    Essence, Essence, 19 June 2025
  • Much of the design was informed by a 25-page scholarly paper on how to govern such a city, written by a professor of sociology specifically for the show.
    Brande Victorian, HollywoodReporter, 17 June 2025

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