as in to forget
to be unable to recall or think of
let's hope that over the summer I don't unlearn everything I learned over the course of this past year
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Violette Leduc had to spend a lifetime unlearning how to see the world as her mother saw it.
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Hazlitt, 2 Oct. 2024
In the background of this story, there’s been a bigger process of unlearning things and maturing into your spirituality, of questioning the beliefs that your sense of social belonging was conditioned on.
—Steph Koyfman, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Sep. 2024
Over the Influence, the first memoir from JoJo, has pages full of the crucial lessons that the musician had to learn and, in some cases, unlearn in life.
—Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 18 Sep. 2024
Embrace this mindset by learning, unlearning and learning again.
—Elpida Kokkota, Forbes, 4 Sep. 2024
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Hazlitt, 2 Oct. 2024
In the background of this story, there’s been a bigger process of unlearning things and maturing into your spirituality, of questioning the beliefs that your sense of social belonging was conditioned on.
—Steph Koyfman, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Sep. 2024
Over the Influence, the first memoir from JoJo, has pages full of the crucial lessons that the musician had to learn and, in some cases, unlearn in life.
—Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 18 Sep. 2024
Embrace this mindset by learning, unlearning and learning again.
—Elpida Kokkota, Forbes, 4 Sep. 2024
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“Unlearn.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unlearn. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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