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- verb Present participle of
overlearn .
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Examples
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On the one hand, the Obama administration -- overlearning from the heavy-handed mistakes the Clintons made on health care reform -- wasted time and lost control of the narrative.
David A. Love: Health Care Reform Is America's Anti-Theft Device 2009
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Another cycle of pinballing between overlearning and underlearning the lessons of Iraq, in other words, without due rigor as to what those lessons in fact are, and what painful-but-helpful guidance they offer.
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On the one hand, the Obama administration -- overlearning from the heavy-handed mistakes the Clintons made on health care reform -- wasted time and lost control of the narrative.
David A. Love: Health Care Reform Is America's Anti-Theft Device 2009
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On the one hand, the Obama administration -- overlearning from the heavy-handed mistakes the Clintons made on health care reform -- wasted time and lost control of the narrative.
David A. Love: Health Care Reform Is America's Anti-Theft Device 2009
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But Clinton may be in danger of overlearning the lesson of overloading the circuits-in other words, doing too little, too late.
Shooting The Moon 2008
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Not bad advice on the whole, although we'd caution Republicans against overlearning the lessons of Mrs. Clinton's defeat.
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Using an ecologically valid approach which had students learning vocabulary, geography, foreign languages, and mathematics, the authors report that overlearning does not produce long-lasting benefits.
Archive 2007-10-01 Field Notes 2007
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However, overlearning is beneficial in the short term.
Increasing Retention Without Increasing Study Time Field Notes 2007
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However, overlearning is beneficial in the short term.
Archive 2007-10-01 Field Notes 2007
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Resolve is not a substitute for effectiveness and competence in the War on Terror — but effectiveness and competence cannot prevail without it … … There is also danger in learning the wrong lessons from Iraq — or in overlearning the lessons of caution.
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