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Recent Examples of cognizable
Garbarino will be tasked with proving that the DHS leader has committed no less than high crimes and misdemeanors, a rather tall order given the total lack of evidence or even cognizable accusation that Mayorkas did anything improper, let alone remotely rising to this standard.
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New York Daily News Editorial Board,
New York Daily News,
15 Feb. 2024
Rule 23 requires the plaintiffs to prove the existence of a cognizable class of persons who have legal interests in common.
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Thomas Baker,
Forbes,
5 May 2023
But the storage unit can make those problems discrete, cognizable.
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Rafil Kroll-Zaidi,
Harper’s Magazine ,
7 Dec. 2021
Disappointment is not a legally cognizable injury.
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Amy Davidson Sorkin,
The New Yorker,
12 Dec. 2020
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New York Daily News Editorial Board,
New York Daily News,
15 Feb. 2024
Rule 23 requires the plaintiffs to prove the existence of a cognizable class of persons who have legal interests in common.
—
Thomas Baker,
Forbes,
5 May 2023
But the storage unit can make those problems discrete, cognizable.
—
Rafil Kroll-Zaidi,
Harper’s Magazine ,
7 Dec. 2021
Disappointment is not a legally cognizable injury.
—
Amy Davidson Sorkin,
The New Yorker,
12 Dec. 2020
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cognizable
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Louden points out, for example, that Swedish and Norwegian are highly mutually intelligible, but neither is considered a dialect of the other, or of a parent language, primarily because each is associated with a separate nation-state.
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The Aztecs had just two Americans on their roster, so what Caligiuri heard on the sideline was a mix of Spanish, Serbian and heavily accented — and barely intelligible — English from players born in England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland.
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Catastrophe bonds work because decades of hurricane and earthquake records make the odds roughly knowable, and the modeling firms that price them have had decades to refine their guesses.
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With enough optimization and intervention, their argument goes, the body can be manipulated into becoming fully knowable, mastered, perfect.
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Both Kalshi and Polymarket argue that trading on their platforms is distinct from gambling.
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Schneider also has some distinct tattoos, including a cherry blossom on her right thigh, stylist scissors on her left inner forearm and a flower on the top of her left foot.
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In a sport where just one player can change lives and where a market like theirs should offer a manifest destiny, the team delivered, mostly, pain.
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That contrast was also manifest in the relative outcomes; the White House only belatedly announced deals for the sale of 200 Boeing jets and at least $17 billion of American agricultural products annually to China through 2028.
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Suddenly, Marjane succumbing to sorrow became achingly comprehensible.
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Kids will get the messages that Plensa espouses as quickly as adults, but this work is an easy, comprehensible introduction to how artists work, using surprising materials in inventive ways to make viewers consider the world differently.
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Less than two years after an infant girl died of apparent starvation in Mesquite, the child's parents pleaded guilty to a lesser crime and received lengthy prison sentences.
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The Sox announced after the game that Sean Newcomb will be the opener Saturday in an apparent bullpen game.
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Eiglarsh added that while the suffering of the families was evident throughout the trial, the defense successfully argued that the crash was a tragic accident.
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As part of this shift, Cuban officers are opting to train soldiers in guerrilla tactics rather than conventional warfare — a strategic departure corroborated by Cancian that is also evident in the footage.
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But what feels most haunting about the arc of then to now, about Smith’s unfathomable issues and woes — yet obvious heart and particularly evident quest to find himself in recent years — is that his words then were spoken with a sense of arrival and past tense.
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Look in the most obvious places first.
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“Cognizable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cognizable. Accessed 25 Jun. 2026.
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