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from memory

from memory prepositional phrase: without any mnemonic aids, such as a script or notes.

Prepositional phrase

  1. Without any mnemonic aids, such as a script or notes.

Questions about from memory

What does from memory mean?
From memory means without any mnemonic aids, such as a script or notes.
What part of speech is from memory?
From memory is a prepositional phrase.

Words near from memory in the dictionary

  1. from home
  2. from hunger
  3. from jump street
  4. from Kashmir to Kanyakumari
  5. from me born
  6. from memory
  7. from Missouri
  8. from moment to moment
  9. from Murphy to Manteo
  10. from my cold, dead hands
  11. from now on

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