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recognition

[rek-uhg-nish-uhn] / ˌrɛk əgˈnɪʃ ən /




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This may explain why her name recognition is perhaps not what it should be in the U.S.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2026

John, whose condition involves involuntary tics, was made an MBE in 2019 in recognition of almost 40 years campaigning and providing support to other sufferers.

From BBC • Jun. 8, 2026

The journey brought recognition and the renewal of old Czernowitz ties.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026

One of Christianity’s deepest convictions is that social standing, respectability and material recognition are not the measures of a life.

From Salon • Jun. 5, 2026

This conceptual framework has proved remarkably stable, even while the scientific knowledge it is used to describe and justify has changed beyond all recognition.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton




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