cognizance
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Bedi said Indian authorities did not take cognizance of the reported presence of a Chinese spy ship in the region and went ahead with the test.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 15, 2022
But since those cruelly oblivious documents took no cognizance of the African people living here, the region remains in a constant cycle of suffering, rebellion and suppression.
From Washington Post • Aug. 23, 2022
Because it requires a cognizance of the body’s position from head to toe, the exercise helps to develop something called kinesthetic awareness — an understanding of how one’s body moves through space.
From New York Times • May 18, 2022
This lack of options for victims, or really even cultural cognizance that this is, in fact, an issue, speaks to the intersecting ways survivors and pregnant-capable people are harmed by the health system.
From Salon • Aug. 28, 2021
“If you’ve anything to say, you can come to the squire’s and make cognizance of the prisoner.”
From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner
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