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of, relating to, or involving conscious mental activities (such as thinking, understanding, learning, and remembering)
cognitive development
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Recent Examples of cognitive
Patients often need time to rebuild strength, regain organ function and recover from complications such as muscle weakness or cognitive difficulties.
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Daryl Austin, USA Today, 25 Sep. 2025
Along with a high fever, cough, and runny nose, measles also carries a risk of pneumonia and encephalitis (swelling of the brain), which can cause hearing loss, cognitive disabilities and death.
—Cara Lynn Shultz, PEOPLE, 25 Sep. 2025
In the latest charges, Kelly pleaded not guilty by reason of mental illness or cognitive impairment.
—Nick Ferraro, Twin Cities, 25 Sep. 2025
Researchers have found that the Mediterranean and DASH diets protect against cognitive decline.
—Patty Weasler, Verywell Health, 24 Sep. 2025
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Daryl Austin, USA Today, 25 Sep. 2025
Along with a high fever, cough, and runny nose, measles also carries a risk of pneumonia and encephalitis (swelling of the brain), which can cause hearing loss, cognitive disabilities and death.
—Cara Lynn Shultz, PEOPLE, 25 Sep. 2025
In the latest charges, Kelly pleaded not guilty by reason of mental illness or cognitive impairment.
—Nick Ferraro, Twin Cities, 25 Sep. 2025
Researchers have found that the Mediterranean and DASH diets protect against cognitive decline.
—Patty Weasler, Verywell Health, 24 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cognitive
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The commission tabled the item to provide more time for Experience Fayetteville staff to evaluate the worth of the property, the house's annual expenses, a reasonable market-rate rent range and the total cost of repairs to the property paid for by Experience Fayetteville.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
30 Sep. 2025
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The federal law requires employers to make reasonable accommodations for workers with disabilities unless doing so would cause undue hardship.—
Shambhavi Rimal,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
29 Sep. 2025
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Today our data may be unassailably empirical, but our emotions are very much apocalyptic.—
Ed Simon
September 24,
Literary Hub,
24 Sep. 2025
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Yet many mysteries remain, and plenty of myths and pseudoscientific claims surrounding the brain are still out there — many based on either misunderstandings of the empirical data or the misleading promises of hucksters.—
Kevin Dickinson,
Big Think,
19 Sep. 2025
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Just as this recent wave of protests was receding, leaving behind deep concern and uncertainty, one of the country’s most beloved bands — Just a Band — was staging a reunion at a party celebrating analytical webzine Africa Is a Country’s first print anthology.—
Mankaprr Conteh,
Rolling Stone,
29 Sep. 2025
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Betty is an investigative journalist for a television show in Shock Treatment, a career that Virgos excel at due to their analytical abilities and need to search for the truth and justice.—
Lisa Stardust,
PEOPLE,
26 Sep. 2025
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Jodie Chavious, a board member of the Slow Food Sacramento chapter and owner of the Chavious Pop-Up pizza truck, said representing small farmers was vital to promoting the core tenets of Slow Food — being good, clean and fair.—
Camila Pedrosa,
Sacbee.com,
27 Sep. 2025
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Just for good measure, award-winning country superstars like Cody Johnson, Ashley McBryde and Lainey Wilson would be inclined to agree.—
Marcus K. Dowling,
Nashville Tennessean,
27 Sep. 2025
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“Cognitive.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cognitive. Accessed 4 Oct. 2025.
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