Rote
Rote noun - An established and often automatic or monotonous series of actions followed when engaging in some activity.
Usage example: learned the rote for the exercise warm-up but not the reasoning behind it
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Nearby Word: rot
Way
Way noun - A usual manner of behaving or doing.
Usage example: she's set in her ways and is not about to change
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And in fact, by rote memorization (playing the game a bunch of times), this is really the only way of surviving long enough when a up against thousands of bullets at once.
Source: Gun Kata -
Although in this case, her sisters aren't bad at technique; they just never learn it by rote the way she does.
Source: Literature / Ballet Shoes - Acting used to be about the rote memorisation of gestures - there are books from the Victorian era demonstrating the correct way to hold your hand to your head to express grief, melancholy, and so on.
Source: Don't Think, Feel
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