overlearn
Americanverb (used with object)
Etymology
Origin of overlearn
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She added, “I would be hesitant to overlearn the lessons of the pandemic.”
From Slate ● Jun. 12, 2020
Good work, however, won’t be denied, even if Broadway producers have perhaps overlearned the lesson of last year’s sleeper, Cole Escola’s “Oh, Mary!”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 8, 2026
“He’s overlearned the Merkel style,” Mr. Kleine-Brockhoff of the German Marshall Fund said.
From New York Times ● Feb. 6, 2022
Even with their head stuffed with briefing books, quick quips hoping to be defining gaffes and legions of overlearned stump speeches at hand, uncertainty lurks.
From US News ● Sep. 23, 2016
Our problem patterns are overlearned and take on a life of their own as habits.
From Forbes ● Aug. 8, 2015
The U.S. may have overlearned the lesson, but it is an instruction that at least < tends in the right direction.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was a classic case of overlearning the lesson of the last crisis — the Lafayette Square incident — and misjudging the current one.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 18, 2021
How far overlearning is necessary and when it becomes wasteful are yet to be determined.
From How to Teach by Strayer, George Drayton
Above a certain amount there is waste because of unproductive overlearning.
From The Psychology of Arithmetic by Thorndike, Edward L. (Edward Lee)
Another reason for "overlearning" is that when the time comes for recall you are likely to be disturbed.
From How to Use Your Mind A Psychology of Study: Being a Manual for the Use of Students and Teachers in the Administration of Supervised Study by Kitson, Harry D.
Excess practice on, and overlearning of, certain bonds is thus very often justifiable.
From The Psychology of Arithmetic by Thorndike, Edward L. (Edward Lee)
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