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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.
—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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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
Adjective
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Well, a University of Texas at Arlington researcher is aiming to turn barks, howls and whimpers of man’s best friend into intelligible speech — a kind of Rosetta Stone of woof.—
Miriam Fauzia,
Boston Herald,
12 Oct. 2025
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The first verse features a rapid-fire, barely intelligible verse from the otherwise unknown qrinceton himself.—
Andre Gee,
Rolling Stone,
7 Oct. 2025
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Expert decisions are high-stakes, one-off choices where the single right answer is not clear—often not knowable—but the quality of the decision matters.—
David Autor,
The Atlantic,
24 Aug. 2025
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Variety reports that KPop Demon Hunters did $18–20 million in business, putting it above Weapons’s more knowable third week of $15.6 million.—
Bethy Squires,
Vulture,
24 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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This approach is distinct from other methods that require physically touching the object.—
Elizabeth Howell,
Space.com,
26 Oct. 2025
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In America’s political duopoly, smaller parties often represent distinct voices and ideologies that neverthless have little chance in most contests above the local level.—
Seth Klamann,
Denver Post,
26 Oct. 2025
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These concerns stem from high levels of speculative investment—totaling hundreds of billions of dollars—in artificial intelligence with few manifest payoffs, as well as the market’s top-heavy structure, with significant value concentrated in a handful of AI-bullish tech stocks.—
Hugh Cameron,
MSNBC Newsweek,
13 Oct. 2025
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In that vacuum, religious zealots and cults manifest, nihilism thrives, and families are torn apart.—
Randall Colburn,
Entertainment Weekly,
23 Sep. 2025
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The idea is to make worker feedback less intimidating for companies by turning it into easily comprehensible data and action items.—
Katie Kilkenny,
HollywoodReporter,
20 Aug. 2025
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In the lab, Goldie’s thoughts circled and surrounded the minutiae of analysis and computation, sorted microscopic comparisons, developed overviews that laid out sequences and processes logically and accurately in theories not otherwise comprehensible.—
Annie Proulx,
New Yorker,
10 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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The Hurricanes’ only public question mark among key contributors entering the week was edge rusher Akheem Mesidor, who sustained an apparent foot injury in the fourth quarter against Louisville.—
Jordan McPherson,
Miami Herald,
24 Oct. 2025
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The Silver Hugo for Best Sound goes to SOUND OF FALLING for its ability to echo, in both its silences and thunders, the constant hum of secrets passed from one generation to the next in the apparent domestic quiet that both conceals and reveals.—
Christian Blauvelt,
IndieWire,
24 Oct. 2025
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River Revival But the transformational potential of the investments for the city is evident.—
Didi Kirsten Tatlow,
MSNBC Newsweek,
24 Oct. 2025
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His transformational role in her life is evident throughout her new book, as well.—
Lex Goldstein,
PEOPLE,
23 Oct. 2025
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With its investments in AI infrastructure and obvious strengths on the power front, this is a country that is building out data centers and positioning itself as a hub for AI, entertainment, sports, finance, high-tech manufacturing and more.—
Diane Brady,
Fortune,
27 Oct. 2025
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The analyst pointed to Azure, Microsoft's cloud computing platform, as an obvious artificial intelligence beneficiary.—
Lisa Kailai Han,
CNBC,
27 Oct. 2025
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“Cognizable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cognizable. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.
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