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conscious mental activities; the activities of thinking, understanding, learning, and remembering
disabilities affecting cognition and judgment
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Recent Examples of cognition
That kind of tool still leaves your cognition engaged.
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Christine Clark, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Apr. 2026
At its core is a hierarchical control architecture that tightly links high-level cognition with low-level motion execution.
—Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 21 Apr. 2026
The goal may shift from restoring peak cognition to preserving decision quality, reducing risk, and scaffolding daily behavior through reliance on the aid of others.
—Anand Kumar, STAT, 21 Apr. 2026
Gemini is ruled by Mercury, the swift planet of communication, cognition and thought processes.
—Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 17 Apr. 2026
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Christine Clark, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Apr. 2026
At its core is a hierarchical control architecture that tightly links high-level cognition with low-level motion execution.
—Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 21 Apr. 2026
The goal may shift from restoring peak cognition to preserving decision quality, reducing risk, and scaffolding daily behavior through reliance on the aid of others.
—Anand Kumar, STAT, 21 Apr. 2026
Gemini is ruled by Mercury, the swift planet of communication, cognition and thought processes.
—Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 17 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cognition
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The push and pull of the entertainment industry’s alternating (and/or simultaneous) love and hate for Swift has been a recurring motivator across her storied career, but her conversation with the Times emphasizes how equally damaging that love-bombing has been for her psyche and perception of self.—
Fran Hoepfner,
Vulture,
28 Apr. 2026
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Each appointment chips away at the credibility of international institutions, reinforcing the perception that political deal-making outweighs basic standards of conduct.—
Efrat Lachter,
FOXNews.com,
28 Apr. 2026
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The suspect, arrested on suspicion of robbery and brought to the hospital for observation, obtained a gun despite weapon detection screening.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
27 Apr. 2026
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For years the owner, now 66, has watched tape, done his own player evaluations and sent observations and suggestions to DeCosta, mostly about players who might be available in later rounds — without exerting any actual decision-making power.—
Michael Silver,
New York Times,
27 Apr. 2026
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Texture, depth and grainy intellection are absent.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
19 Mar. 2026
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Despite appearances to the contrary—the swirling sentences, the feverish intellection—there is nothing hermetic about Krasznahorkai’s work, both old and new, which squarely faces contemporary European reality and its perils, including the tortured dynamics of settlement, movement, and identity.—
James Wood,
New Yorker,
10 Oct. 2025
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Comedy legend Sykes is back for a new special filled with her classic antics and, as the title notes, reflections on her years of experience in the comedy scene.—
Madeleine Janz,
PEOPLE,
30 Apr. 2026
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There are micro-twists within the major ones, expressive fillips that blend confessions and aphorisms, and grand reflections along with jousts of seductive wit.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
30 Apr. 2026
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Mercury in your 12th House of Reflection brings up thoughts that need processing before being shared.—
Tarot.com,
Sun Sentinel,
30 Apr. 2026
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Want to stay up to date on IndieWire’s film reviews and critical thoughts?—
Alison Foreman,
IndieWire,
30 Apr. 2026
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The Braves are methodical offensively, utilizing their downs to get to certain parts of the field and running different concepts to open spaces.—
PJ Green
April 30,
Kansas City Star,
30 Apr. 2026
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Fans of shows or movies where characters break out of prison will have a chance to try it themselves at a new interactive escape room concept opening in Grapevine this fall.—
Fousia Abdullahi,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
30 Apr. 2026
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Thriller’s conception is rendered as excitingly—if hokily—as anyone could ask for.—
Spencer Kornhaber,
The Atlantic,
24 Apr. 2026
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When Vacheron Constantin launched the Overseas collection three decades ago, the models embodied the more than 270-year-old maison’s conception of an elegant traveling chronograph — rooted in the spirit of exploration and openness to the world.—
Fairchild Studio,
Footwear News,
17 Apr. 2026
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“Cognition.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cognition. Accessed 2 May. 2026.
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