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conscious mental activities; the activities of thinking, understanding, learning, and remembering
disabilities affecting cognition and judgment
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Recent Examples of cognition
Staying in led to greater sustained cognition.
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Jon Sabes, Fortune, 7 June 2026
That work later shaped Furness’s philosophy surrounding experiential learning and human cognition.
—Lyssanoel Frater, USA Today, 4 June 2026
The results highlight an important boundary in early social cognition and offer insight into how infants distinguish between human and artificial agents.
—Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 1 June 2026
The analysis found consistent, statistically significant correlations between need for cognition and fluid intelligence, crystallized intelligence and general intelligence.
—Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 30 May 2026
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Jon Sabes, Fortune, 7 June 2026
That work later shaped Furness’s philosophy surrounding experiential learning and human cognition.
—Lyssanoel Frater, USA Today, 4 June 2026
The results highlight an important boundary in early social cognition and offer insight into how infants distinguish between human and artificial agents.
—Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 1 June 2026
The analysis found consistent, statistically significant correlations between need for cognition and fluid intelligence, crystallized intelligence and general intelligence.
—Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 30 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cognition
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Folding laundry, loading dishwashers, cleaning kitchens, and navigating cluttered homes require many of the same perception, manipulation, and reasoning capabilities that would eventually allow robots to operate independently on a battlefield.—
Kaif Shaikh,
Interesting Engineering,
16 June 2026
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Similarly, 89% of Gen Z say the restaurant’s cleanliness, and 75% say the restroom’s cleanliness, influences their perception of restaurant food safety.—
Guy Yehiav,
Fortune,
16 June 2026
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What unites them is a focus on intervention rather than observation.—
Dasha Shunina,
Forbes.com,
11 June 2026
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The observations revealed that CRISTAL-02 is forming stars at roughly twice the rate of similar galaxies from the same era.—
Samantha Mathewson,
Space.com,
11 June 2026
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Texture, depth and grainy intellection are absent.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
19 Mar. 2026
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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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The natural surroundings are highlighted by way of blue reflection ponds and elevated walking paths that preserve the endemic plants.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
11 June 2026
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At its center shined a stunning Burmese pigeon’s blood ruby of over 6 carats, with reflections evoking Caravaggio’s signature chiaroscuro technique.—
Luisa Zargani,
Footwear News,
11 June 2026
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Any thoughts on today’s newsletter?—
Priyanka Salve,
CNBC,
11 June 2026
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That doesn't affect my thoughts below.—
Joe Salas
June 11,
New Atlas,
11 June 2026
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And yet, there’s something about viewing a spectacle at the same time as millions of others — and eventually even the streamers caught on to the concept.—
Michael Schneider,
Variety,
12 June 2026
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The concept features a rock climbing wall, multi-sports demo cage, golf pro shop, house of cleats and more.—
Jason Dill
June 11,
Miami Herald,
11 June 2026
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There's a much bigger story to Sinatra and her conception of this bunker and what her plan was for this bunker long-term that will fill her out and explain her story even more.—
Randall Colburn,
Entertainment Weekly,
8 Dec. 2025
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Hounsou’s depth surpasses the two-dimensional conception of his role, and DiCaprio taps into unexpected ferocity in a performance of sure instincts.—
Sheri Linden,
HollywoodReporter,
8 Dec. 2025
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“Cognition.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cognition. Accessed 17 Jun. 2026.
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