as in routine
an established and often automatic or monotonous series of actions followed when engaging in some activity
learned the rote for the exercise warm-up but not the reasoning behind it
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Recent Examples of rote
Martin Zwilling, Forbes, 28 Dec. 2024
For many couples, AI’s role will be limited to more rote activities like budgeting or managing schedules.
—Madeline Fitzgerald, Quartz, 20 Dec. 2024
Scott White, Forbes, 4 Mar. 2025
The rote repetition of delivering the same message began to bore me.
—Elissa Kelly, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2025
See All Example Sentences for rote
Noun
In addition to the business benefits, employees are finding their work much more exciting and satisfying than the old culture of rote and never changing tasks.
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The traditional high school model, with its emphasis on rote memorization and standardized testing, is increasingly out of step with the demands of the 21st century.
—Recent Examples of Synonyms for rote
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After her skincare routine, Olivia gets her hair and makeup done, steams her voice, and puts on her onstage outfit.—
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Adding an ice water facial to your routine can help individuals feel refreshed to face their day.—
Adjective
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Several key figures - see Kevin de Bruyne, Ilkay Gundogan and Kyle Walker - are now into the twilights of their respective careers and so Guardiola’s team have been unable to play its usual style of high-energy, high-intensity soccer.—
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Three times in the past week, and six since Trump took office a little more than two months ago, the Justice Department has asked the conservative-majority high court to step into cases much earlier than usual.—
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Myanmar is in one of the world’s most seismically active regions, where the Eurasian and Indian plates of the Earth’s crust grind against each other.—
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Tomlinson is the second comedy influencer in recent years to find the late-show grind a tough one.—
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The two stood proud in their black scrubs — a departure from the typical pink scrubs worn in the department.—
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Everything is very primitive, but quite typical of the Russians.—
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The group were among around 7,000 people recently released from scam centers run by criminal gangs and warlords operating along Myanmar’s border with Thailand, where many are held against their will and forced to work conning ordinary people, including American citizens, out of their life savings.—
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For most ordinary owners, there's always one area of the house that could use a little TLC.—
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Strict and unimaginative gender norms were alive and well, and Weight Watchers was for the ladies (calories, of course, have no gender.—
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These hotels are, at their worst, sites of literal death, and at best, gilded cages for the unimaginative.—
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Braking, via 4-wheel disc brakes with standard ABS, is efficient.—
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The series, working with plenty of time never forsakes a standard television clip.—
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Across Los Angeles and Ventura counties, temperatures are expected to be five to 12 degrees below normal, Lund said.—
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On the opposite side, the anti-Tesla group — which moved up its protest to 10 a.m. from its normal noon start in anticipation of the counterprotest — had more than 200 at its peak.—
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“Rote.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rote. Accessed 7 Apr. 2025.
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