recognize
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A second experiment tested whether the chimpanzees could recognize smaller quartz crystals similar in size to those collected by ancient hominins.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 15, 2026
“The way we’re approaching this is to first be extremely selective as to what kinds of businesses we’re investing in. And to recognize the probability of success is low,” he said.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 14, 2026
“Even if they have some of these biases, they recognize that they shouldn’t be telling the experimenter about those biases,” he explains.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2026
"I recognize the fear and uncertainty that an incident of this magnitude has brought upon our city."
From Barron's ● Jul. 13, 2026
“I saw this big one hovering above the Foodland parking lot. I didn’t recognize it.”
From "Clairboyance" by Kristiana Kahakauwila
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To ensure the treatment reached prostate cancer cells, the team attached a targeting molecule that recognizes PSMA, a protein found on the surface of prostate tumor cells.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 9, 2026
“By automatically applying penalty relief, the IRS recognizes that taxpayers who historically pay on time should not have to make a formal request for relief that is routinely granted,” he said.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 8, 2026
The majority no longer treats cloud providers primarily as recipients of information and instead recognizes how they increasingly resemble custodians of a person’s digital papers and effects.
From Slate ● Jun. 29, 2026
Experts say investigators’ best bet to solving the case quickly would be if someone recognizes the suspect in Nest video footage, a masked man seen on Guthrie’s porch the morning she was abducted.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 23, 2026
“I am always amazed that no one recognizes me out of context,” Isobel says.
From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern
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The object is now recognized as the ninth closest white dwarf to the Sun.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 15, 2026
Even after the researchers added pyrite and calcite crystals, each with different shapes from quartz, the chimpanzees still recognized and selected the crystal type stones.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 15, 2026
They recognized the creature immediately; it was all over their social-media feeds.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
In a separate case involving the Federal Reserve, however, the court recognized a different rule for Fed governors, pointing to the long historical independence of central banking institutions.
From Salon ● Jul. 11, 2026
Natalie gasped as she recognized a tall, pretty Latina woman in jeans and a blue windbreaker.
From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz
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Even worse, recognizing the long con has degraded offline interactions as well.
From Salon ● Jul. 13, 2026
The same categorization task was now being handled mainly by the temporal cortex, a region involved in memory and recognizing complex objects.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 12, 2026
Handing over a business card, following an adviser on LinkedIn, recognizing an old face from your college days and, perhaps, doing business with them and remembering where you met is all part of the magic.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 6, 2026
“It does have a negative impact on recognizing the work and skills that teachers bring,” he says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 4, 2026
“I stopped recognizing us. It was time to go.”
From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy
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