learned
adjective
having much knowledge; scholarly; erudite.
Example Sentences
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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
