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cognizance

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


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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

“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

“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

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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