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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
Two of them investigated how menopausal hormone therapy affects the risk of heart disease, breast cancer, hip fractures and cognition.
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Jean Wactawski-Wende, The Conversation, 2 May 2025
These compounds feed your gut microbiome, reduce inflammation and even sharpen cognition.
—Dr. Steven Gundry, CNBC, 25 Apr. 2025
Psilocybin, a psychedelic compound found in some mushrooms, has been found to improve mood, cognition and motor symptoms in Parkinson’s patients, according to a new study from the University of California San Francisco (UCSF).
—Melissa Rudy, FOXNews.com, 7 May 2025
Erin Westgate, a psychologist and researcher at the University of Florida who studies social cognition and what makes certain thoughts more engaging than others, says that such material reflects how the desire to understand ourselves can lead us to false but appealing answers.
—Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 4 May 2025
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Jean Wactawski-Wende, The Conversation, 2 May 2025
These compounds feed your gut microbiome, reduce inflammation and even sharpen cognition.
—Dr. Steven Gundry, CNBC, 25 Apr. 2025
Psilocybin, a psychedelic compound found in some mushrooms, has been found to improve mood, cognition and motor symptoms in Parkinson’s patients, according to a new study from the University of California San Francisco (UCSF).
—Melissa Rudy, FOXNews.com, 7 May 2025
Erin Westgate, a psychologist and researcher at the University of Florida who studies social cognition and what makes certain thoughts more engaging than others, says that such material reflects how the desire to understand ourselves can lead us to false but appealing answers.
—Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 4 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cognition
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That message is likely to further erode public confidence in the income tax system and increase public perceptions that the wealthy don’t pay their fair share of taxes.—
Howard Gleckman,
Forbes.com,
30 May 2025
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The Cité du Court looks set to further this perception in a younger spectators.—
John Hopewell,
Variety,
30 May 2025
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Before the Bears return to the field for another round of OTAs next week, here are five observations.—
Dan Wiederer,
Chicago Tribune,
23 May 2025
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But statistician Abraham Wald made a critical observation: those planes survived.—
Faizan Mustafa,
Forbes.com,
23 May 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.—
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26 Jan. 2023
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Reese assisted on three of Cardoso’s baskets in Thursday’s win, a reflection of how this dynamic can space the floor and fuel the offense.—
Julia Poe,
Chicago Tribune,
31 May 2025
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At the signature 100-day mark that is commonly a point of reflection for presidencies, Trump’s numbers weren’t ideal.—
Jared Gans,
The Hill,
31 May 2025
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And, of course, doing all these things in the presence of clients just shows a complete lack of rational thought.—
Joe Cermele,
Outdoor Life,
29 May 2025
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Pope Leo's Style of American Leadership Is a Hopeful Opportunity This body of thought, which had its most notable appearance in his 1891 encyclical, Rerum Novarum, introduced the world to a new approach to the social, economic, and political challenges of the day.—
Time,
Time,
29 May 2025
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For instance, many of my coachees/leaders who have grown vertically on their own weren’t familiar with this concept until they were introduced to it in their organization’s professional development program.—
Liz Guthridge,
Forbes.com,
28 May 2025
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During this period, pride was often found capitalized and linked to the Christian concept of the seven deadly sins.—
Juliana Kim,
NPR,
28 May 2025
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As a child growing up in Greensboro, North Carolina, Elliott Hundley formed his conception of how artists live based on cinematic archetypes of painters and sculptors roughing it in bohemian splendor in converted industrial spaces.—
Mayer Rus,
Architectural Digest,
30 May 2025
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Akin uses a child’s perspective to wrestle with a nation’s conception of itself in the waning days of brutality.—
Lovia Gyarkye,
HollywoodReporter,
23 May 2025
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“Cognition.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cognition. Accessed 4 Jun. 2025.
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