LEARNS Synonyms: 109 Similar and Opposite Words

learns

verb

present tense third-person singular of learn

as in masters

to acquire complete knowledge, understanding, or skill in after months of trying, he finally learned the dance steps

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as in realizes

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 finds

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 memorizes

to commit to memory he learned the words to the song while performing karaoke

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Recent Examples of learns Humanoid learns factory Gallop’s initial assignment involves packing 15 different motherboard accessories, many of which are small, thin, and enclosed in transparent plastic bags. — Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 13 Nov. 2026 Bernardeau knew of García Lorca much like anyone who learns about their home country’s foremost literary giants in school, but the life of Rafael perhaps eluded the textbooks. — José Criales-Unzueta, Vanity Fair, 13 Nov. 2026 In truth, the audience learns about Raúl by watching Elsa’s drama unfold. — Los Angeles Times, 13 Nov. 2026 If that manager demands accountability but shifts blame when things go wrong, the employee learns something about responsibility. — Andre Shojaie, Forbes.com, 12 Nov. 2026 Sacramento Mayor Kevin McCarty pledged to alert school districts when the city learns of nearby federal immigration enforcement activity, reversing his earlier position after mounting pressure from school officials. — Jennah Pendleton, Sacbee.com, 11 Nov. 2026 Knightley played Juliet, a married woman who learns her husband’s best friend, Mark (Andrew Lincoln), has feelings for her. — Armando Tinoco, Deadline, 9 Nov. 2026 Nearly every medical student learns about the coagulation cascade, but not all doctors know or remember how to diagnose and treat an infant who shows up in an ER bleeding, often in the brain and invisible to the eye. — Duaa Eldeib, ProPublica, 8 Nov. 2026 In it, a young kid traverses New Orleans to fish, goes door to door selling his game, and learns how to drive, among other things. — Nina Corcoran, Pitchfork, 6 Nov. 2026

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Part of the ceiling consideration at quarterback is how a player masters the mental side of the game.

— Parker Gabriel, Denver Post, 23 Sep. 2026
The real competitive advantage of the next decade will not belong to the CEO who masters every AI platform, but the CEO who consistently makes better decisions.

— Jose Luis Gonzalez Rodriguez, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2026

Definition of masters

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By the song’s end, Schmitt realizes that the altercation has only made his love stronger; indeed, there are few aphrodisiacs more potent than us against the world.

— Cameron Cook, Pitchfork, 13 Nov. 2026
But Big Tech’s spy problem is almost certainly a lot bigger than anyone realizes.

— David Goldman, CNN Money, 10 Nov. 2026

Definition of realizes

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However recognizable the structures may be—isolated phrases giving way to longform improvisation—the performance finds Taylor in a transitional period, one in which the ephemerality of the moment pushed its musicians to bold new places.

— Levi Dayan, Pitchfork, 3 Nov. 2026
The survey finds that the Democratic candidates running in Michigan, Texas, Maine, Ohio, and Kansas are ahead of their Republican counterparts by 11, 7, 6, 5, and 5 percentage points, respectively.

— Carter Schroppe, The Washington Examiner, 2 Nov. 2026

Definition of finds

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So that’s where the expectation gap gets bigger and bigger, because what the worker needs and what the operation needs are different.

— Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson, semafor.com, 13 Nov. 2026
Building confidence for its younger roster and finalizing different rotations will be essential for the Horned Frogs as the schedule gets tougher at the end of this month with two games against Power Four conference opponents.

— Steven Johnson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 13 Nov. 2026

Definition of gets

Verb

His Peter starts as a congenial cokehead and then discovers a new outlook on life, all thanks to fatherhood.

— Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times, 13 Nov. 2026
In Munro’s story, a woman, who discovers a lump in her breast, avoids her health anxieties by fixating on a crypt in the countryside and learning about the history of southern Ontario.

— The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 12 Nov. 2026

Definition of discovers

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Serhiy, like Zabuzhko, locates his captor’s impulse to torture him in the very pages written by the Russian novelist.

— Madeleine Wulfahrt, New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2026
The Greeks offer another kind of striving, one that locates pleasure in the pursuit itself rather than in the prize.

— Stacy Keltner, The Conversation, 30 Oct. 2026

Definition of locates

Verb

Sevan Suni is an associate professor at the University of San Francisco who studies interactions between plants and pollinators.

— Connie Hanzhang Jin, NPR, 8 Nov. 2026
The Conversation’s senior politics editor, Alfonso Serrano, spoke on election night with Charlie Hunt, a scholar at Boise State University who studies Congress and elections.

— Charlie Hunt, The Conversation, 4 Nov. 2026

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