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
  • 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
  • That might well be a smokescreen or even a dangerous learned stereotype, given the way abuse issues often play out in reality.
    Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 20 Apr. 2022
  • The series stands apart, though, for showing how Banerjee, born in India, uses a learned idea of American appetites to pursue a received idea of the American dream.
    James Poniewozik, New York Times, 26 Dec. 2022

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