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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
And before the physicist can argue, a neurologist peers around the corner to say that color is a sensation generated by our brains to interpret the neural signals from the retina caused by light, and so, really, color can’t happen independent of human cognition.
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Kory Stamper, Longreads, 19 Mar. 2026
Differences in sleep, cognition and heart health measures were more subtle.
—Angelica Stabile, FOXNews.com, 19 Mar. 2026
Experts think the connection between type 1 diabetes and dementia risk stems from the way that diabetes can damage blood vessels, leading to brain changes that may affect memory and cognition over time.
—Tom Gavin, EverydayHealth.com, 19 Mar. 2026
This means that these roaches, and perhaps other insects, may have more sophisticated cognition and social behavior than researchers once thought.
—Ari Daniel, NPR, 18 Mar. 2026
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Kory Stamper, Longreads, 19 Mar. 2026
Differences in sleep, cognition and heart health measures were more subtle.
—Angelica Stabile, FOXNews.com, 19 Mar. 2026
Experts think the connection between type 1 diabetes and dementia risk stems from the way that diabetes can damage blood vessels, leading to brain changes that may affect memory and cognition over time.
—Tom Gavin, EverydayHealth.com, 19 Mar. 2026
This means that these roaches, and perhaps other insects, may have more sophisticated cognition and social behavior than researchers once thought.
—Ari Daniel, NPR, 18 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cognition
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And in a runoff election — where turnout is everything — perception can be power.—
Zachary Bynum,
CBS News,
8 Apr. 2026
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Outside of Congress, public perception may be more aligned with Democrats’ framing.—
Nik Popli,
Time,
7 Apr. 2026
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Costco will not be an option for shoppers on Easter Sunday this year, as the company's website says warehouses will be closed in observation of the holiday.—
Gabe Hauari,
USA Today,
5 Apr. 2026
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Once controlled by governments, Earth observation has evolved into a multibillion-dollar industry supplying near-real-time intelligence to clients worldwide.—
Bloomberg News,
Boston Herald,
5 Apr. 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 algorithms, Zhu explained, filter out unwanted noise such as moonlight reflections, auroral light, the shadowing by clouds and vegetation, and even differences caused by the viewing angle of the satellite during different passes.—
Tereza Pultarova,
Space.com,
9 Apr. 2026
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And so, the intensity of your desire to do that might be a good reflection of how much soft power that country is exercising.—
Fatma Tanis,
NPR,
9 Apr. 2026
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Warrior Mars in your sign fires up thoughts about your identity — and simultaneously heightens your initiative.—
Tarot.com,
New York Daily News,
9 Apr. 2026
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The prevailing thought was not concern, not the slightest bit of panic.—
Doug Ferguson,
Chicago Tribune,
9 Apr. 2026
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The signs show that the Knicks will finally add extra bodies to relieve much of the workload from the team’s core — a concept that was nonexistent under previous head coach Tom Thibodeau.—
Fiifi Frimpong,
New York Daily News,
10 Apr. 2026
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Earlier planning means fewer constraints, better decision-making, and a much smoother path from concept to completion.—
Timothy Dale,
The Spruce,
9 Apr. 2026
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Trump has such a different view, and, in that sense, is so fundamentally not a conservative and not somebody who believes in that conception of limited government.—
David Frum,
The Atlantic,
8 Apr. 2026
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Another point of pride for Airbus is the fact that the project took only nine months from conception to demonstration, which reflects the urgency put on developing new drone and anti-drone technologies.—
David Szondy
April 04,
New Atlas,
4 Apr. 2026
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“Cognition.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cognition. Accessed 12 Apr. 2026.
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