Thesaurus results for COGNITIONS

cognitions

noun

plural of cognition

as in perceptions

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

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Recent Examples of cognitions In an interview last year, for example, Hinton warned the technology could eventually take control of humanity, with AI agents in particular potentially able to mirror human cognitions within the decade. — Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 3 Apr. 2026 Instead, computers became powerful enough that AIs can be churned out by gradient descent, without any human needing to understand the cognitions that grow inside. — Nate Soares, The Atlantic, 15 Sep. 2025

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African policymakers have long said Western institutions’ influence over risk perceptions have led to unfairly high funding costs.

— Paige Bruton, semafor.com, 2 Oct. 2026
In addition to analyzing this objective data, leaders listen and observe subjective data of employees’ perceptions.

— John Radman, Forbes.com, 2 Oct. 2026

Definition of perceptions

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Those observations can support monitoring across industries with significant emissions.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 3 Oct. 2026
Handwritten texts are often interwoven into visual compositions, further embedding her emotions, thoughts, and personal observations directly into the fabric.

— Francesca Aton, ARTnews.com, 2 Oct. 2026

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Many young adults who started families in the past twenty years were raised this way, which shaped their own conceptions of how to rear children.

— Margaret Talbot, New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2026
Whether destruction or technological progress, both are purposeful activities, each with different conceptions of success or failure.

— Brian Boucher, ARTnews.com, 17 Sep. 2026

Definition of conceptions

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Like fans of the movie, and Colleen Hoover’s book on which the movie is based, star Anne Hathaway (who plays the titular character in the film), has her own thoughts.

— Beatrice Verhoeven, HollywoodReporter, 5 Oct. 2026
Verity dwells almost entirely in the gulf between the front-facing celeb being interviewed by Alex Cooper and the vicious private thoughts of her confession.

— Bethy Squires, Vulture, 5 Oct. 2026

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