See lear in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"senses": [
{
"alt_of": [
{
"word": "learn"
}
],
"categories": [
"English deliberate misspellings",
"English internet slang",
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
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13,
20
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],
"ref": "2025 December 30, u/Mehoyer, “YTD. Little bit worried if I can sustain this in the future...”, in r/Salary (Reddit post), archived from the original on 31 May 2026:",
"text": "Better start learing",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
154,
158
]
],
"ref": "2026 March 28, @TheDamaniFelder, X (post), archived from the original on 31 May 2026:",
"text": "My favorite thing about the \"No Kings\" protests is that I can make fun of them with the same memes I used for the last protest because these people never lear or change at all.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
78,
84
]
],
"ref": "2026 March 30, @GBNT1952, X (post), archived from the original on 31 May 2026:",
"text": "\"I see no good reason why we should attack Iran,\" says a bunch of people that leared geopolitics from Netflix, a former pizza delivery driver, or a Vogue intern that can't pronounce the word bureau.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
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[
14,
20
]
],
"ref": "2026 May 26, @OldeWorldOrder, X (post), archived from the original on 31 May 2026:",
"text": "I hope we all leared a valuable lesson today: California is corrupt beyond repair.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Deliberate misspelling of learn"
],
"links": [
[
"Internet",
"Internet"
],
[
"learn",
"learn#English"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(Internet slang) Deliberate misspelling of learn"
],
"tags": [
"Internet",
"alt-of",
"deliberate",
"misspelling"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈlɪɹ/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈlɪə/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈliə/",
"tags": [
"General-Australian",
"New-Zealand"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈliːɹ/",
"tags": [
"Scotland"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈlɛː/",
"note": "East Anglia, cheer–chair merger"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɪə(ɹ)"
},
{
"homophone": "leer"
},
{
"homophone": "lair (cheer–chair merger)"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"Quality Learing Center"
],
"word": "lear"
}
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