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cognizance

[kog-nuh-zuhns, kon-uh-] / ˈkɒg nə zəns, ˈkɒn ə- /


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Throughout the process, students developed a greater cognizance of food waste, and these issues became more readily and consistently resonant when shopping.

From Salon • Apr. 29, 2024

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

“Johnson wanted to reintegrate that seceded group of states without any cognizance of the fact they were fighting for the perpetuation of slavery.”

From Seattle Times • Oct. 12, 2019

The cognizance was of a silver woman on a sable field, with a knight kneeling at her feet In her simplicity, Elaine had been delighted by the compliment cm the shield.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White




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