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How to pronounce rote in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms rote learning
Type of committal to memory, memorisation, memorization

Examples of rote

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It promises to ditch rote learning and foster creative and independent thinking.
From the businessweek.com
It was a sign of how ubiquitous and rote presidential foreign travel has become.
From the time.com
More emphasis then was put on rote memorization and less on a reasoning process.
From the evangelicaloutpost.com
The rote responses we apply to the developing world don't work in this instance.
From the guardian.co.uk
Rote is simply a method of pushing forward those that easily retain information.
From the guardian.co.uk
When I worked in Nepal I went into class on class of rote learning all day long.
From the guardian.co.uk
They know how to build math concepts, extending beyond rote learning and drill.
From the dispatch.com
Even when rote statements are prepared, events sometimes can get confrontational.
From the businessweek.com
Instruction in most subjects in China, even in really good high schools, is rote.
From the economist.com
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  • Memorization by repetition
  • Rote Island (Pulau Rote, also spelled Roti) is an island of Indonesia, part of the East Nusa Tenggara province of the Lesser Sunda Islands. It has an area of . It lies northeast of the Australian coast and northeast of the Ashmore and Cartier Islands. ...
  • The process of learning or committing something to memory through mechanical repetition, usually by hearing and repeating aloud, often without full attention to comprehension or thought for the meaning; Mechanical routine; a fixed, habitual, repetitive, or mechanical course of procedure; By ...
  • (rotely) By rote, in rote fashion; machine-like
  • A method of teaching by imitation
  • (1315): Custom or habit, routine. This word is employed as a metaphor to indicate something is done mechanically like a wheel that turns around and around.
  • A magical spell, creating an effect which can be safely reproduced with others watching. Without taking the time to create and test a Rote, magic tends to fail spectacularly.