They tell you to memorise your lines, follow your light, and hit your marks.

BBC: Joaquin Phoenix

The competitors assess how the course is set and memorise every ripple, roll, and turn.

BBC: Sport - Winter Sports - Alpine skiing: Super-G

Cardiff Crown Court heard he had been subjected to a ferocious beating when he failed to memorise passages from the Koran.

BBC: Yaseen Ali Ege

The chorus has to memorise two similar but divergent scores, and subtle differences in the solo roles call for cast changes.

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With 1Password, you'll only need to memorise a single master password to have one-click access to your database of usernames and passwords, which is safe if you make that master password hard to guess.

BBC: Password protection on the road

As long as the entrance requirements for universities and senior secondary schools remain based on the results of national exams which primarily test students' ability to memorise, parents will pile on the same pressures.

ECONOMIST: China

In the year between a university student's recruitment and her start at work, she is sent newsletters, her uniform (designed by staff and voted on at a company fashion show) and assorted company philosophies set down by Ms Yazu's late husband that the new recruit has to memorise.

ECONOMIST: Japan

The draft primary curriculum for maths, due to be introduced in schools next year, contains plans for pupils to memorise their times tables up to 12 by age nine, multiply and divide fractions by age 11, as well as learn topics such as geometry, long division and multiplication and decimals.

BBC: Primary maths plan threatens 'too much too soon'