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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 The search for awareness is now centered on machines, with the debate over artificial-intelligence sentience forcing scientists to take a hard look at what cognition and consciousness actually mean. — Andrea Gawrylewski, Scientific American, 1 Sep. 2026 Crucially, the presence of either cobalt or titanium wasn't linked with a change in cognition. — Mike McRae 31, New Atlas, 1 Sep. 2026 Using techniques like input-dependent computation and gating, the liquid AI design gives us substantially greater power to access the human-like cognition, albeit imitative, of the machines. — John Werner, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2026 Evidence of social media’s negative effects on people’s cognition and mental health is widely available. — Thu T. Nguyen, Baltimore Sun, 27 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for cognition

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Noun

There’s no tangible title on the line in this one – there’s only perception.

— Ryan Gaydos OutKick, FOXNews.com, 6 Sep. 2026
Quite the sobering commentary on society, but the next WNBA commissioner must understand the high-wire act of being in charge while combating the perception of not being warm enough.

— Candace Buckner, New York Times, 5 Sep. 2026

Definition of perception

Noun

Businesses and private properties are not required to follow flag directives but can join in the observation.

— Allison Gibson, Sacbee.com, 11 Sep. 2026
Half a century after Ericson’s initial observation, the driving force behind the flips once again became a mystery.

— Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 11 Sep. 2026

Definition of observation

Noun

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

Speed certainly has value, but speed without reflection often leads to confident mistakes.

— Nick Leighton, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2026
Barisone, who’s in his early sixties, with a big Will Ferrell chin and a muscular build, can hold a conversation about his own good judgment, and the iniquity of his enemies, while riding a horse and monitoring his own reflection.

— Ian Parker, New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2026

Definition of reflection

Noun

For one thing covetousness, as opposed to the more concrete sins like theft or murder or adultery, is a thought crime, and almost all that goes on here, happens within the minds of the characters.

— Jessica Kiang, Variety, 6 Sep. 2026
Halftime thoughts The Hurricanes go into halftime with a 28-6 lead on Stanford.

— Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 5 Sep. 2026

Definition of thought

Noun

Test the concept through a short presentation, conversation, or early version rather than keeping it theoretical.

— Tarot.com, Sun Sentinel, 12 Sep. 2026
The new banner will develop and produce projects across film, TV, audio and live experiences for exploitation at home and abroad by optioning popular literary works and original concepts.

— Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 11 Sep. 2026

Definition of concept

Noun

Beatrice, played by actual academic Anne-Laure Sellier, is a professor at Columbia whose work focuses on how historical conceptions of memory can inform present-day studies of the brain.

— Alison Willmore, Vulture, 3 Sep. 2026
The move would have been difficult to imagine under the traditional conception of college sports.

— Joshua Hong, Fortune, 29 Aug. 2026

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