cognizance

Example Sentences

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“India will work to ensure that the valuable inputs generated from partner countries receive due cognizance globally,” he said.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 6, 2023

“No,” Rawitsch said, laughing, “there was just no cognizance of that. I considered myself to be an educator.”

From Slate • Nov. 17, 2021

I probably would have been involved in these liberation movements and had no cognizance at all that being nurtured in its bosom was a force of triumphal reaction.

From Salon • Jan. 25, 2021

Still, an inchoate anxiety lurked behind the mania, a fleeting cognizance that for all their demands of more, nothing could ever match this.

From New York Times • Oct. 27, 2020

“If you’ve anything to say, you can come to the squire’s and make cognizance of the prisoner.”

From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner