Learned
Picked up
Picked up adjective - Being clean and in good order.
Both terms in one sentence
- Then we learned she picked up some other languages 'when she was bored', like Arabic.
Source: Shout Out / Web Comics - She also never picked up these skills as she says she never even really learned code.
Source: Suetiful All Along -
The skills he picked up souping up his bike is how he learned to create insane weapons.
Source: Video Game / Dead Rising 2
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