Example Sentences

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Then when I started to write the melody, I realised what I'm really trying to talk about is unlearning something that happened to me that was completely out of my control.

From BBC • Oct. 16, 2021

Job One for Daniel and his housemates is unlearning the lessons of incarceration.

From New York Times • Oct. 25, 2016

“Yes. I see that....Well, I thank you, Genry. But my business is unlearning, not learning. And I’d rather not yet learn an art that would change the world entirely.”

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin

This, I tell you, was for him the first axiom of wisdom, 'Meditation is learning, speech is unlearning.'

From The Apologia and Florida of Apuleius of Madaura by Butler, Harold Edgeworth