How to Use learned in a Sentence

learned

adjective

• We had a learned discussion about politics.
• Raphael Warnock is a pro-choice pastor and a learned man.
  — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 9 May 2022
• Brown skin could be cloaked in soot and stereotype or in learned airs.
  — Lauren Michele Jackson, The New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2022
• Building those networks of care is a learned skill in and out of the forest.
  — Susanna Schrobsdorff, Time, 2 May 2021
• Closing out games in the fourth quarter is a learned skill that has taken the Celtics a few years to acquire.
  — Gary Washburn, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Nov. 2022
• Vartan, who died last week at 87, was a learned man to be sure, but never a donnish one.
  — Richard Stengel, Time, 18 Apr. 2021
• The good news is that the ability to anticipate is a learned skill.
  — Ron N Hurst, Forbes, 22 Oct. 2021
• As weeks passed and more learned of Mark’s plight, the recipient list of the daily updates grew to the hundreds.
  — Marina Gomberg, The Salt Lake Tribune, 17 Dec. 2021
• With age comes learned patience of letting the medium and the moment determine the art.
  — Pat McDonogh, courier-journal.com, 18 Mar. 2021
• It’s because Tom is a robot, a learned machine that keeps on learning.
  — Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, 23 Sep. 2021
• Good play is a learned language that requires time and exposure.
  — Matt Villano, CNN, 19 Aug. 2022
• The group moved with the learned efficiency of an assembly line, giving out 400 bags in less than an hour.
  — Washington Post, 19 Oct. 2021
• The big cats, however, are easier to handle due to their learned patterns, Wiltz said.
  — Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 28 Sep. 2022
• Baseball is complex enough to confound its most learned devotees.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 7 Apr. 2022
• But despite its success, Ovid craved a more learned readership.
  — Esteban Berché, National Geographic, 26 Nov. 2019
• Or Frederick Douglass, the ex-slave who was a learned advocate for civil rights.
  — Harvey MacKay, Star Tribune, 26 Sep. 2020
• The English professor likes the strong women, too, and watches the adaptations (with a learned and critical eye).
  — Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2020
• Leadership is both a learned skill and a natural talent.
  — Kevin Coker, Forbes, 15 Sep. 2021
• Once the systems were in place, Optimus successfully transferred the learned skills to Atlas, a 6-foot-tall 400 lb.
  — Grace Williams, Fox News, 19 May 2017
• Research has shown that resilience is a learned skill, and our society encourages us to build resilience.
  — Sophie Okolo, Forbes, 21 June 2021
• Once the inmates stopped working, Marie saw that the officers had developed their own kind of learned helplessness.
  — Rachel Aviv, The New Yorker, 15 June 2020
• But shutting out distractions and staying focused on technique is a learned skill.
  — Natalie Krebs, Outdoor Life, 7 Feb. 2024
• Abigail Cowen’s freckled complexion and burnished mane (and brows!) are a cause for learned curation.
  — Calin Van Paris, Vogue, 18 Mar. 2021
• This mindset is a learned skill and one that could hold you in good stead, irrespective of your industry to generation.
  — Bala Sathyanarayanan, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2022
• That means many recent college grads have never paid their own rent, balanced a checkbook or created a budget, much less learned to live on one.
  — cleveland, 13 June 2021
• My experience tells me that optimism as a quality is not a learned skill.
  — Neil Senturia, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 July 2022
• Volmar, a learned monk who served for decades as her secretary, is observing from an adjoining room.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 30 Jan. 2023
• Are there tools out there that the market makes available from learned people who understand industry due diligence?
  — Robert Hoban, Forbes, 30 May 2021
• By the end of the two weeks, the participants–or scholars, as they're called by Kloss–complete their own projects, building either apps or websites using their learned technical skills.
  — Zoey Lyttle, Peoplemag, 16 Mar. 2023
• Risk-aversion to a degree that precludes taking advantage of opportunity is a learned trait.
  — Noah Rothman, National Review, 13 Dec. 2023

Last Updated: 19 Dec 2024