cognizance

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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

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

“No,” Rawitsch said, laughing, “there was just no cognizance of that. I considered myself to be an educator.”

From Slate • Nov. 17, 2021

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

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