cognizable

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Recent Examples of cognizable At the end of the day, the out-of-state LLCs have no cognizable interest in preventing the charging order from being entered or registered as a sister-state order, since an LLC is not itself affected by a charging order other than to whom the distribution is addressed. Jay Adkisson, Forbes, 26 Apr. 2022 Disappointment is not a legally cognizable injury. Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker, 12 Dec. 2020 The party bringing the suit would have to show that Biden’s policy results in cognizable injury. Adam S. Minsky, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2022 But that requires someone who suffered some kind of legally cognizable injury from Biden’s order. Matt Ford, The New Republic, 31 Aug. 2022 See All Example Sentences for cognizable
Recent Examples of Synonyms for cognizable
Adjective
  • The Library of Congress digitized a collection of Bell’s documents describing his breakthrough experiment with sound wave vibrations that could replicate intelligible sound transmitted from one place to another.
    Alexis Simendinger, The Hill, 10 Mar. 2025
  • His turn toward politics is probably one of the biggest things to happen to any Marvel character offscreen, right up there with Hulk becoming intelligible between Avengers movies and Tony Stark and Pepper Potts breaking up and reuniting about a dozen times.
    Siddhant Adlakha, Vulture, 13 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • Nor are the dynamics of contagion fully knowable in advance.
    Timothy F. Geithner, Foreign Affairs, 12 Dec. 2016
  • Previous discussions of Bartram and peer artist-naturalists have highlighted how their art sought to make the natural world highly visible and knowable.
    The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 13 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • The title drop, when a line of dialogue references the film’s title, is a delicate art with a distinct cult following.
    Donald Liebenson, IndieWire, 10 Apr. 2025
  • The Justice Department is considering a plan to merge the ATF and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), both of which often collaborate but have distinct missions.
    Hannah Parry, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • The potential this represents for businesses is manifest—those that adapt to a borderless talent economy will gain access to the best minds, the most dynamic markets and the newest investment opportunities.
    Bernardo Saraiva, Forbes.com, 27 Mar. 2025
  • The capitulation to Trump was manifest in Senate Republican’s refusal to block any of the president’s cast of unqualified and dangerous nominees to serve in senior cabinet positions.
    Mordechai Gordon, Hartford Courant, 28 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • For patients to benefit fully from AI, there must be clear and comprehensible explanations of how these systems work and how they are evaluated.
    Rob El Kareh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Feb. 2025
  • Given the stakes for reproductive autonomy, Donegan’s reservations are entirely comprehensible.
    Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • And with no apparent competition for the starting job, the redshirt junior can focus on his own game rather than competing with the guys around him.
    Shaun Goodwin, Idaho Statesman, 3 Apr. 2025
  • Wood joins his several other denizens of Middle-earth in shedding light on the apparent disparity between the franchise's astounding earnings and correspondingly low salaries for its stars.
    Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 3 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • That was evident in New Orleans last year as storms like Hurricane Francine soaked the city.
    Umair Irfan, Wired News, 5 Apr. 2025
  • That quality was evident in Father Arul, who left India to come to the heartland of America and serve the people of the Catholic Church in northeast Kansas.
    Greg Norman, FOXNews.com, 5 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Entertainment Fans of the show on social media seem to be missing a lot of crucial character development, and there’s an obvious explanation why.
    Kathleen Walsh, Glamour, 10 Apr. 2025
  • In its wildest moments, Coogler’s film seems like a collision of Lovecraft Country with True Blood, though more obvious comparisons will likely be drawn to From Dusk Till Dawn.
    David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 10 Apr. 2025

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“Cognizable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cognizable. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.

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