How to Use cognizable in a Sentence
cognizable
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This is off-the-map in terms of a legally cognizable claim.
—Ben Brody, Bloomberg.com, 14 June 2017
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Then would come the much more tractable and cognizable job of fixing ObamaCare.
—Holman W. Jenkins, WSJ, 18 July 2017
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But the storage unit can make those problems discrete, cognizable.
—Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 15 Sep. 2020
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His lack of any cognizable endgame is powerful evidence of its own.
—WSJ, 11 Mar. 2022
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If anyone can sue without a cognizable injury and the possibility of remedy, the courts would be overwhelmed with frivolous claims.
—The Editorial Board, WSJ, 13 Dec. 2020
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Beyond that, in its ruling, the Third Circuit explains that there is no judicially cognizable federal right to force state or federal governments to comply with the law.
—Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 18 Nov. 2020
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Voters, the court reasoned, do not suffer a cognizable harm based on what, for them, is a formalistic difference between whether post-election receipt is authorized by statute or by a ruling of the state’s highest court.
—Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 18 Nov. 2020
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To comply with international law, Poland must allow migrants who enter and have a cognizable claim of asylum to stay in the country until their asylum claim is adjudicated.
—Jill Goldenziel, Forbes, 10 Nov. 2021
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Do time and effort alone, spent in a reasonable effort to avert reasonably foreseeable harm, constitute a cognizable injury under Maine common law?
—Kim Zetter, WIRED, 9 Oct. 2009
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Texas has not demonstrated a judicially cognizable interest in the manner in which another State conducts its elections.
—Robert T. Garrett, Dallas News, 4 Jan. 2021
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But federal courts can only adjudicate cognizable claims, and the complaint here fails on a number of jurisdictional and substantive grounds.
—Jim Saunders, sun-sentinel.com, 28 Oct. 2019
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Even then, however, a legally cognizable injury to these plaintiffs would depend on a transgender student running in the same events and achieving substantially similar times.
—Lori Riley, courant.com, 25 Apr. 2021
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The Texas law encourages the filing of lawsuits (albeit in the state courts), and poses not the slightest obstacle to federal lawsuits based on claims that concrete applications of the statute have violated some cognizable federal interest.
—Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 4 Sep. 2021
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