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.
Examples of from memory in a Sentence
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MacFarlane is also planning to view the upcoming eclipse, then rebuild the scene from memory back in her New York City studio.
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Elissaveta M. Brandon, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Apr. 2024
Editors’ Picks The realization coincided with a special delivery from Yamaha — an upright Disklavier, a cyborg piano that is wired to play itself from memory or from a laptop’s input that a pianist can simultaneously play.
—Grayson Haver Currin, New York Times, 25 Mar. 2024
Auden, at 34, rumpled and eccentric, awed Hayden by reciting poems from memory in German and Latin.
—Tom Stanton, Detroit Free Press, 23 Mar. 2024
Training all staff to recognize the signs of dementia and to interact appropriately with people suffering from memory loss could help prevent walkaways.
—Steven Rich, Washington Post, 17 Dec. 2023
And Trump, too, often appears to suffer from memory lapses.
—Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times, 10 Feb. 2024
As mentioned, there’s no importing from memory cards, so that’s not a performance factor.
—PCMAG, 5 Feb. 2024
The brilliant gambit of that show is to watch a bunch of apocalypse survivors attempt to act out, from memory, episodes of The Simpsons (in the framing of the play, a revered artifact long since lost to time).
—Sara Holdren, Vulture, 11 Jan. 2024
But instead of using the computer to call up a questionaire to assess his risk of suicide, the nurse recited the questions from memory, then left Hagans unmonitored in an exam room.
—Kathleen McGrory, ProPublica, 9 Jan. 2024
Elissaveta M. Brandon, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Apr. 2024
Editors’ Picks The realization coincided with a special delivery from Yamaha — an upright Disklavier, a cyborg piano that is wired to play itself from memory or from a laptop’s input that a pianist can simultaneously play.
—Grayson Haver Currin, New York Times, 25 Mar. 2024
Auden, at 34, rumpled and eccentric, awed Hayden by reciting poems from memory in German and Latin.
—Tom Stanton, Detroit Free Press, 23 Mar. 2024
Training all staff to recognize the signs of dementia and to interact appropriately with people suffering from memory loss could help prevent walkaways.
—Steven Rich, Washington Post, 17 Dec. 2023
And Trump, too, often appears to suffer from memory lapses.
—Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times, 10 Feb. 2024
As mentioned, there’s no importing from memory cards, so that’s not a performance factor.
—PCMAG, 5 Feb. 2024
The brilliant gambit of that show is to watch a bunch of apocalypse survivors attempt to act out, from memory, episodes of The Simpsons (in the framing of the play, a revered artifact long since lost to time).
—Sara Holdren, Vulture, 11 Jan. 2024
But instead of using the computer to call up a questionaire to assess his risk of suicide, the nurse recited the questions from memory, then left Hagans unmonitored in an exam room.
—Kathleen McGrory, ProPublica, 9 Jan. 2024
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“From memory.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/from%20memory. Accessed 16 Apr. 2024.
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