cognizable
adjective
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It's easy to recognize the cogni- in cognizable and in other English words that have to do with knowing: cognitive, incognito, precognition, and recognition, for example. They're all from Latin cognōscere ("to get to know" or "to acquire knowledge of"). Cognizable was formed in the 17th century from the root of cognizance, which in English means "knowledge" or "awareness." Cognizance traces to cognōscere via Anglo-French conoisance and conoissant, meaning "aware" or "mindful." Cognizable was used in its legal sense almost from its introduction, and that meaning continues to be most common today.
Examples of cognizable in a Sentence
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
At the end of the day, the out-of-state LLCs have no cognizable interest in preventing the charging order from being entered or registered as a sister-state order, since an LLC is not itself affected by a charging order other than to whom the distribution is addressed.
—Jay Adkisson, Forbes, 26 Apr. 2022
Disappointment is not a legally cognizable injury.
—Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker, 12 Dec. 2020
The party bringing the suit would have to show that Biden’s policy results in cognizable injury.
—Adam S. Minsky, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2022
But that requires someone who suffered some kind of legally cognizable injury from Biden’s order.
—Matt Ford, The New Republic, 31 Aug. 2022
Nor could any allegedly cognizable injuries be fairly traceable to any specific misrepresentations or deception alleged in the Complaint.
—Michael I. Krauss, Forbes, 4 June 2022
His lack of any cognizable endgame is powerful evidence of its own.
—WSJ, 11 Mar. 2022
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“Cognizable.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cognizable. Accessed 25 Apr. 2024.
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cognizable
adjective
Note: Systematic exclusion of members of a cognizable group from a jury violates the Sixth Amendment to the Constitution, which requires that jurors be selected from jury pools that represent a fair cross section of the community.
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