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conscious mental activities; the activities of thinking, understanding, learning, and remembering
disabilities affecting cognition and judgment
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Studies have also found that water consumption directly supports cognition, attention, memory, mood and executive function.
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Deirdre Bardolf, FOXNews.com, 19 Oct. 2025
Digital tools and consumer products that target sleep, cognition, thermoregulation, and pelvic health should be evaluated against evidence standards and priced for broad access.
—Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 18 Oct. 2025
Banks will discuss how hormones and inflammation may influence Alzheimer’s risk; why women are disproportionately affected; the role of genetics and brain imaging in unlocking answers and lifestyle choices that may help protect memory and cognition.
—Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Oct. 2025
The researchers conclude that while perimenopause was associated with poorer overall cognition, the differences did not correspond to a single localized area.
—Alexa Mikhail, Flow Space, 14 Oct. 2025
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Deirdre Bardolf, FOXNews.com, 19 Oct. 2025
Digital tools and consumer products that target sleep, cognition, thermoregulation, and pelvic health should be evaluated against evidence standards and priced for broad access.
—Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 18 Oct. 2025
Banks will discuss how hormones and inflammation may influence Alzheimer’s risk; why women are disproportionately affected; the role of genetics and brain imaging in unlocking answers and lifestyle choices that may help protect memory and cognition.
—Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Oct. 2025
The researchers conclude that while perimenopause was associated with poorer overall cognition, the differences did not correspond to a single localized area.
—Alexa Mikhail, Flow Space, 14 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cognition
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While many restaurant chains have suffered in recent years as diners wracked by inflation eat out less, analysts were unsure if the chain's value perception contributed to Chipotle's issues.—
Amelia Lucas,
CNBC,
30 Oct. 2025
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The South China Morning Post (SCMP) reported that the robot is powered by multimodal interaction, environmental perception, and motion-control technologies.—
Mrigakshi Dixit,
Interesting Engineering,
29 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Nweeia eventually connected the dots between the Inuit’s observation and his own research, field tests, and scientific theories.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
28 Oct. 2025
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Reporting live from the scene, Chloe and other Vogue colleagues share their hot takes and observations.—
Chelsea Daniel,
Vogue,
28 Oct. 2025
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Despite appearances to the contrary—the swirling sentences, the feverish intellection—there is nothing hermetic about Krasznahorkai’s work, both old and new, which squarely faces contemporary European reality and its perils, including the tortured dynamics of settlement, movement, and identity.—
James Wood,
New Yorker,
10 Oct. 2025
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Tennant always brought his own intellection to Disco’s throbbing hedonism yet was hedonistic nonetheless, perfecting a musical idiom that his forerunner Noel Coward was too early to enjoy.—
Armond White,
National Review,
10 May 2024
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After fifteen years of championing photography as a platform for exchange and critical reflection, the African Artists’ Foundation (AAF) announces that LagosPhoto Festival will now adopt a biennial format, on view from October 25 – November 29, 2025.—
PhotoVogue,
Vogue,
25 Oct. 2025
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The walk opened with a prayer to show respect to those buried at the cemetery, before a group led by a priest and Mexican folkloric dance group Grupo de Danza Tonantzin walked through the cemetery in quiet reflection.—
Alyssa N. Salcedo,
jsonline.com,
25 Oct. 2025
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Or is there some other thought process?—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
3 Nov. 2025
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Those are the real thoughts and conversations these controllers are having.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
2 Nov. 2025
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Takako Fuji originated the role of Kayako when the character and concept that would become The Grudge were still being refined back in Japan in the late '90s.—
Stephanie Sengwe,
PEOPLE,
30 Oct. 2025
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The Scandinavian sleep method, a cultural design to improve sleep quality in Nordic countries like Sweden and Norway, has popularized the concept of using two separate duvets on one bed.—
Angelica Stabile,
FOXNews.com,
29 Oct. 2025
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In total, making the piece took four years from conception to creation.—
Paige Reddinger,
Robb Report,
26 Oct. 2025
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During the procedure, a doctor places donor sperm directly into the patient’s uterus during ovulation, to increase the chances of conception.—
Chelsea Bailey,
CNN Money,
25 Oct. 2025
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“Cognition.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cognition. Accessed 5 Nov. 2025.
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