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cognition

noun

Definition of cognition

as in perception

technical conscious mental activities; the activities of thinking, understanding, learning, and remembering disabilities affecting cognition and judgment

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Recent Examples of cognition This can lead to multiple serious issues with cognition, executive function, the cardiovascular and nervous systems and more. — CBS News, 28 Oct. 2026 There isn’t some mountaintop of cognition that the AI does not achieve. — Nilay Patel, The Verge, 22 Oct. 2026 There are plenty of good reasons to snack on walnuts—like supporting heart health and cognition. — Sarah Garone, HEALTH, 22 Oct. 2026 More research is needed to better understand the connection between creatine and cognition; but the supplement may be beneficial for brain health, particularly in older adults and for issues related to sleep deprivation. — Deborah Vankin, Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2026 See All Example Sentences for cognition

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While trends like these can shift perceptions of beauty and create new aesthetic anxieties, Payne argues that ferritin face also encourages consumers to approach beauty more holistically.

— Amy Francombe, Vogue, 6 Nov. 2026
This perception holds even among the young and the politically and socially progressive, who would never consciously think that such acts are morally sullying.

— Paul Bloom, New Yorker, 6 Nov. 2026

Definition of perception

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Northwestern University Researchers hope FLIP will lead to more discoveries of planets that have been hiding in existing observations.

— Adam Harrington, CBS News, 4 Nov. 2026
Another rescue attempt As Swift’s fate was sealed, mission scientists slowly turned the telescope’s instruments back on to collect data and observations right up until the end.

— Jackie Wattles, CNN Money, 4 Nov. 2026

Definition of observation

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Texture, depth and grainy intellection are absent.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 19 Mar. 2026
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

Definition of intellection

Noun

Their room was only a hundred and forty square feet, but Trombecky thought of the Odyssey’s two restaurants as her dining room and the ship’s library as a living room.

— Shayla Love, New Yorker, 6 Nov. 2026
Our thoughts are with those affected directly by this incident.

— Tristan Maglunog, ABC News, 6 Nov. 2026

Definition of thought

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That gave the company confidence that a GS3 based on composite tanks was a concept that could go forward, and now the company is aiming for a debut in 2028 for a government customer.

— Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 6 Nov. 2026
Insurance companies design products like annuities around the concept of risk pooling in order to remain profitable.

— Jeff Stevenson, Forbes.com, 6 Nov. 2026

Definition of concept

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In this conception of macroeconomics, the economy consists of a massive input-output table where every cell in the matrix is a sector that consumes other cells’ outputs and provides inputs to other producers.

— Oliver Melton, Foreign Affairs, 5 Nov. 2026
Perspective Films also offers guidance at every step of the filmmaking process from conception to release.

— Jack Dunn, Variety, 5 Nov. 2026

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