cognizance
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“India will work to ensure that the valuable inputs generated from partner countries receive due cognizance globally,” he said.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 6, 2023
When he speaks to Susan in the real world, however, he conveys an extra level of cognizance, acknowledging his book reality as well as her own.
From Salon ● Oct. 31, 2022
Still, an inchoate anxiety lurked behind the mania, a fleeting cognizance that for all their demands of more, nothing could ever match this.
From New York Times ● Oct. 27, 2020
“Brett Hankison did not ‘blindly’ discharge his firearm, and did not lack cognizance of the direction in which he fired, but acted in quick response to gunfire directed at himself and other officers,” Leightty wrote.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 4, 2020
“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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