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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

I probably would have been involved in these liberation movements and had no cognizance at all that being nurtured in its bosom was a force of triumphal reaction.

From Salon ● Jan. 25, 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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