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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of unlearn.

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  • The ISI surveyed 14,000 undergraduates and based their list on comparing what a student "unlearns" on a particular question between their freshman and senior years.

    Elana Berkowitz: Environment and Civil Rights Issues Important To Young Iowans, Claims New Voter 2008

  • Or something to like KOTOR where he 'unlearns' his good/evil tendencies and is brought back to neutral at the beginning of the game.

    Joystiq 2010

  • A normal brain is able to take in new information that overrides or "unlearns" traumatic experiences, and the Salk researchers have found the neurotransmitter that turns this ability on and off.

    SEEDMAGAZINE.COM 2009

  • A normal brain is able to take in new information that overrides or "unlearns" traumatic experiences, and the Salk researchers have found the neurotransmitter that turns this ability on and off.

    SEEDMAGAZINE.COM 2009

  • A normal brain is able to take in new information that overrides or "unlearns" traumatic experiences, and the Salk researchers have found the neurotransmitter that turns this ability on and off.

    SEEDMAGAZINE.COM 2009

  • Researchers have located the neurotransmitter that overrides or "unlearns" bad memories.

    SEEDMAGAZINE.COM 2009

  • A normal brain is able to take in new information that overrides or "unlearns" traumatic experiences, and the Salk researchers have found the neurotransmitter that turns this ability on and off.

    SEEDMAGAZINE.COM 2009

  • In another way it is complex: in each new place Maskull unlearns things he learned before so that he can move forward.

    Archive 2010-01-01 Karen Burnham 2010

  • In another way it is complex: in each new place Maskull unlearns things he learned before so that he can move forward.

    Philosophy Swirling Around an Exotic Sun Karen Burnham 2010

  • Maybe if he unlearns the overcooked language of Hollywood melodrama he'll find his true voice.

    Boyz N The Quad 2008

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