overlearn
verb
over·learn
ˌō-vər-ˈlərn 
overlearned; overlearning; overlearns
: to continue to study or practice after attaining proficiency
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Fans have learned their viewpoints through experience and like everyone, sometimes overlearn things.
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Stephanie Stradley, Chron, 23 Sep. 2022
Going too big, according to this argument, could overlearn the lessons of 2009, resulting in an overheated economy and, gulp, inflation.
—Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 5 Feb. 2021
As a refugee from National Socialism, Kissinger may have overlearned the lessons of Neville Chamberlain's appeasement of Hitler in Munich 1938.
—Damon Linker, TheWeek, 22 May 2020
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Stephanie Stradley, Chron, 23 Sep. 2022
Going too big, according to this argument, could overlearn the lessons of 2009, resulting in an overheated economy and, gulp, inflation.
—Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 5 Feb. 2021
As a refugee from National Socialism, Kissinger may have overlearned the lessons of Neville Chamberlain's appeasement of Hitler in Munich 1938.
—Damon Linker, TheWeek, 22 May 2020
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overlearn
verb
over·learn
-ˈlərn
: to continue to study or practice something after mastering it
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