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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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The researchers followed up with those people more than 10 years later and gave them cognitive tests to check their processing speed, executive function and memory.
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Helen Carefoot, Flow Space, 23 Oct. 2025
Communication is a cognitive amplifier.
—Chris Schembra, Rolling Stone, 22 Oct. 2025
Studies of people have suggested that cognitive training can improve thinking and memory.
—Jon Hamilton, NPR, 22 Oct. 2025
Thomas Banneyer | Picture Alliance | Getty Images A group of prominent figures, including artificial intelligence and technology experts, has called for an end to efforts to create ‘superintelligence’ — a form of AI that would surpass humans on essentially all cognitive tasks.
—Dylan Butts, CNBC, 22 Oct. 2025
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Helen Carefoot, Flow Space, 23 Oct. 2025
Communication is a cognitive amplifier.
—Chris Schembra, Rolling Stone, 22 Oct. 2025
Studies of people have suggested that cognitive training can improve thinking and memory.
—Jon Hamilton, NPR, 22 Oct. 2025
Thomas Banneyer | Picture Alliance | Getty Images A group of prominent figures, including artificial intelligence and technology experts, has called for an end to efforts to create ‘superintelligence’ — a form of AI that would surpass humans on essentially all cognitive tasks.
—Dylan Butts, CNBC, 22 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cognitive
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Bowie is quite wonderful as Tesla — mysterious, exotic yet somehow the film’s most reasonable man —while Andy Serkis as his assistant brings sly comedy to an otherwise morbidly serious affair.—
Kirk Honeycutt,
HollywoodReporter,
20 Oct. 2025
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If a landlord or property owner has a reasonable suspicion of a safety concern, such as a health emergency or damage to a residential property, they are allowed to enter without notice.—
Tamia Fowlkes,
jsonline.com,
20 Oct. 2025
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Similar to finding that planets do not orbit the earth, the search for economics anomalies requires searching for empirical facts that cannot (easily) be explained using the standard economic model where everyone chooses by optimizing and makes no systematic mistakes.—
Emma Burleigh,
Fortune,
21 Oct. 2025
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Developed over two years, the CCI aims to give brands an empirical readout of how social, search and site traffic activity correspond with real economic indicators, from consumer demand to share-price performance.—
Sandra Salibian,
Footwear News,
17 Oct. 2025
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The Green Shirt is calm, pragmatic and analytical.—
Jason BARNARD,
Rolling Stone,
20 Oct. 2025
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Excel performs better with large worksheets and offers a wider range of analytical and statistical tools, including advanced charting.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
18 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Non-perishable items or foods that last a long time in the fridge can be good options.—
Merve Ceylan,
Health,
26 Oct. 2025
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The baby, who initially made good progress after the surgery, died 20 days later.—
Arizona Republic,
AZCentral.com,
26 Oct. 2025
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“Cognitive.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cognitive. Accessed 26 Oct. 2025.
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