cognizable

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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. 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 See All Example Sentences for cognizable
Recent Examples of Synonyms for cognizable
Adjective
  • The story is actually intelligible this time around, but while the mecha designs look wonderful, the characters definitely needed more work.
    Ollie Barder, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
  • These observations are premised solely for the purpose of rendering more intelligible those which apply more directly to the particular case under consideration.
    Liz Tracey, JSTOR Daily, 29 July 2025
Adjective
  • 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
  • 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
  • After the very recent birth of their child, Un has taken a break from the all-consuming demands of restaurateuring to attend to the entirely distinct all-consuming demands of early parenthood.
    Helen Rosner, New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2025
  • After monitoring them for two years, the researchers directly observed the birth of two different species of males with distinct genomes from a single queen.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 13 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • This is made manifest through four sections (two comprising the majority of the book).
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Chaves isn’t so interested in making psychic vision manifest via a film camera — that’s been done before anyway.
    Katie Walsh, Chicago Tribune, 4 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • 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
  • Crosser, going into detail comprehensible only to the network-savvy attendees, laid out all the steps Zoom may go through trying to connect from within a highly secure network.
    PC Magazine, PC Magazine, 7 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • The apparent hoaxes come amid heightened concern over campus safety following the fatal shooting of conservative activist Charlie Kirk during an event at Utah Valley University.
    N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA Today, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Paramount’s apparent interest is no surprise since the company’s ambitious new CEO, David Ellison, has talked about a desire to strike further deals.
    Brian Stelter, CNN Money, 11 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • This is not your father’s or grandfather’s Atherton High School football program, and never was that more evident than Tuesday’s practice at the school.
    Rich Barak, Louisville Courier Journal, 12 Sep. 2025
  • The care taken in preparing the food is evident.
    Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 12 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • And a soft implant can be the best option to avoid an obvious edge.
    Megan McIntyre, Allure, 16 Sep. 2025
  • That’s because your liver won’t give you obvious clues that say there’s a MASH up going there.
    Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025

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“Cognizable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cognizable. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.

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