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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
The tests for strength currently include VO2 max, lower-body power, and muscle mass; those for cognition include appraisals of executive function, processing speed, and memory.
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Tad Friend, New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2025
Both groups showed improvement on tests of memory and cognition, but the intensive group did better.
—Brittney Melton, NPR, 31 July 2025
Despite decades of effort, dreams of bestowing computers with humanlike cognition and real-world understanding had not materialized.
—Steven Levy, Wired News, 1 Aug. 2025
Every two years between 2010 and 2020, the researchers interviewed the study participants to assess their cognition, memory and executive function, including their ability to carry out tasks or to plan.
—Jacqueline Howard, CNN Money, 30 July 2025
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Tad Friend, New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2025
Both groups showed improvement on tests of memory and cognition, but the intensive group did better.
—Brittney Melton, NPR, 31 July 2025
Despite decades of effort, dreams of bestowing computers with humanlike cognition and real-world understanding had not materialized.
—Steven Levy, Wired News, 1 Aug. 2025
Every two years between 2010 and 2020, the researchers interviewed the study participants to assess their cognition, memory and executive function, including their ability to carry out tasks or to plan.
—Jacqueline Howard, CNN Money, 30 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cognition
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Part of Ayoub's mission is to challenge perceptions of Palestinians and empower women and children.—
Marni Rose McFall,
MSNBC Newsweek,
21 Aug. 2025
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Violent crime is down in Washington, D.C. and across the nation, but that's not the perception among Americans who year after year report feeling like crime is getting worse.—
Jessie Balmert,
The Enquirer,
21 Aug. 2025
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Researchers claim that further observations of the system might reveal new insights about how our own solar system may have looked in its early days.—
Eric Lagatta,
USA Today,
28 Aug. 2025
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Data, experience, or observation must serve as scaffolding.—
Rhea Wessel,
Forbes.com,
27 Aug. 2025
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Tennant always brought his own intellection to Disco’s throbbing hedonism yet was hedonistic nonetheless, perfecting a musical idiom that his forerunner Noel Coward was too early to enjoy.—
Armond White,
National Review,
10 May 2024
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The school board’s legal counsel thought the book could be in conflict with a recent state intellection freedom rule, and recommended it be removed from circulation, according to a spokeswoman.—
tcrain,
al,
26 Jan. 2023
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This skill was built the same way any other is—through repetition, reflection and a few painful failures.—
Maksym Blazhkun,
Forbes.com,
22 Aug. 2025
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But what does that reflection show, other than a team with power and speed and athleticism that, after five months, still hasn’t found a consistent identity?—
Ian O'Connor,
New York Times,
22 Aug. 2025
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What are your thoughts on the implications of the movie’s sexualizing gaze?—
Ryan Lattanzio,
IndieWire,
21 Aug. 2025
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In June, the singer made headlines not for his own music, but for his thoughts on Beyoncé’s Grammy-winning 2024 album Cowboy Carter, lamenting to a live audience that the singer’s country turn was blocking his own album from climbing into the top 3 on Apple Music’s country albums chart at the time.—
Gil Kaufman,
Billboard,
21 Aug. 2025
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Koziol and his father built another novel residential concept for the area in 2019.—
Katie Nixon,
The Tennessean,
21 Aug. 2025
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An earlier Cadillac concept called Opulent Velocity debuted at the Quail last year.—
Mark Phelan,
USA Today,
21 Aug. 2025
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Adding condoms not only decreases your risk of conception but also adds protection against STIs.—
Jill Grimes,
CNN Money,
13 Aug. 2025
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Infinity has established itself in part due to its showcasing of the entire production pipeline, from conception to final cut.—
Dade Hayes,
Deadline,
12 Aug. 2025
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“Cognition.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cognition. Accessed 3 Sep. 2025.
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