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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
The deal puts cognition into the $10 billion club, joining a handful of other AI startups, most notably OpenAI and Anthropic.
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Ashley Capoot, CNBC, 8 Sep. 2025
The exercise group also scored slightly better on overall cognition tests.
—New Atlas, 6 Sep. 2025
All of the sweeteners except tagatose were associated with a faster decline in cognition, especially memory, the researchers found.
—Melissa Rudy, FOXNews.com, 5 Sep. 2025
Difficulty Focusing Anxiety can impact cognition, or mental processes.
—Angela Ryan Lee, Verywell Health, 4 Sep. 2025
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Ashley Capoot, CNBC, 8 Sep. 2025
The exercise group also scored slightly better on overall cognition tests.
—New Atlas, 6 Sep. 2025
All of the sweeteners except tagatose were associated with a faster decline in cognition, especially memory, the researchers found.
—Melissa Rudy, FOXNews.com, 5 Sep. 2025
Difficulty Focusing Anxiety can impact cognition, or mental processes.
—Angela Ryan Lee, Verywell Health, 4 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cognition
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But with prices consistently uncompetitive, demand scant, and government incentives in the US and elsewhere drying up, there’s a growing perception in energy circles that the hydrogen bubble has burst.—
Tim McDonnell,
semafor.com,
11 Sep. 2025
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For many workers, the onboarding process can significantly impact their perception of their new company.—
Alyshia Hull,
USA Today,
11 Sep. 2025
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Full confirmation will come as other astronomers make observations of the moon.—
Nola Taylor Tillman,
Space.com,
10 Sep. 2025
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What follows are the observations of a trio of housing industry veterans, each with different takes on the extent of -- and possible ways to chip away at – the vexing problem.—
Jeffrey Steele,
Forbes.com,
9 Sep. 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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The school board’s legal counsel thought the book could be in conflict with a recent state intellection freedom rule, and recommended it be removed from circulation, according to a spokeswoman.—
tcrain,
al,
26 Jan. 2023
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Now, after years of sobriety and reflection, Sheen tells all in this new two-part docuseries.—
Erik Kain,
Forbes.com,
13 Sep. 2025
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No reflection about who was apologizing and why.—
Beth Lew-Williams,
New Yorker,
13 Sep. 2025
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Here, though, the research team is trying to model people’s thoughts on financial policy, which is why the enumerated outcomes include initial rate recommendations, made up of a preferred policy rate, a confidence score, and a summary.—
John Werner,
Forbes.com,
15 Sep. 2025
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Lauren, 40, then chimed in with her own thoughts on what makes their relationship work after all these years.—
Toria Sheffield,
PEOPLE,
14 Sep. 2025
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Each module has a video component and addresses real-world concepts for AI use cases in automotive.—
Malana VanTyler,
USA Today,
11 Sep. 2025
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Zara relocated and expanded into an elevated design department store-style concept featuring a dedicated Zara Athletics section.—
Rhonda Richford,
Footwear News,
10 Sep. 2025
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This disastrously cramped conception of who gets to have a day in court would be the main target of my outrage if the court’s opinion on the use of ethnicity, language and workplace as factors in immigration enforcement weren’t even more upsetting.—
Noah Feldman,
Mercury News,
10 Sep. 2025
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Political theorist Antonio Gramsci (1891–1937), an Italian anti-fascist journalist, organizer, and imprisoned political dissident, offered a conception of society and described the possibilities for changing social orders.—
The Editors,
JSTOR Daily,
10 Sep. 2025
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“Cognition.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cognition. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.
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