cognizance
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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
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
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