recognize
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He briefs reporters and does television interviews, but few people would recognize him on the streets of most cities in America.
From Slate ● Jul. 22, 2026
When asked whether he was able to recognize any facial features, Byers said: "No, there was a quite a bit of decomposition to where skin slippage...made it unrecognizable."
From Barron's ● Jul. 21, 2026
Out the other, she winked at shareholders to recognize the enduring profitability of its gas-powered pickup and SUVs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
You might recognize my name from previous newsletters and stories, but starting Aug. 4 I’ll be in your inbox every Tuesday as I officially take the reins as Don’t Short Yourself’s regular writer.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 21, 2026
It took a second for him to recognize me.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
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To ensure the treatment reached prostate cancer cells, the team attached a targeting molecule that recognizes PSMA, a protein found on the surface of prostate tumor cells.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 9, 2026
“By automatically applying penalty relief, the IRS recognizes that taxpayers who historically pay on time should not have to make a formal request for relief that is routinely granted,” he said.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 8, 2026
He stresses that the Court’s decision merely recognizes “what has been clear for a century—that those who fall within the President’s ‘general administrative control’ must be removable by the President at will.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026
Experts say investigators’ best bet to solving the case quickly would be if someone recognizes the suspect in Nest video footage, a masked man seen on Guthrie’s porch the morning she was abducted.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 23, 2026
“If the laboratory recognizes people, maybe it also knows data about everyone, and can present a corresponding simulated environment depending on your faction.”
From "Insurgent" by Veronica Roth
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The award recognized her pioneering research into the behavior of planetary magnetic fields and the ways those fields generate space weather.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 21, 2026
Dr. Churchill says this points to a distinct marsupial lineage that had not been recognized before.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 19, 2026
But Alexander Hamilton, among others, recognized that a national bank, in harnessing private wealth to create public credit, was as vital to independence as a military victory.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
In 1970, President Nixon recognized mobile homes as an important housing option for middle-income families, calling it “the only kind of housing they can reasonably afford.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026
The plants that he recognized, he named out loud, describing them as he saw fit.
From "The Very, Very Far North" by Dan Bar-el
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Even worse, recognizing the long con has degraded offline interactions as well.
From Salon ● Jul. 13, 2026
In 2022, she was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire during Queen Elizabeth’s Platinum Jubilee, recognizing Tyler’s contributions to music.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 2026
Handing over a business card, following an adviser on LinkedIn, recognizing an old face from your college days and, perhaps, doing business with them and remembering where you met is all part of the magic.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 6, 2026
“I’m sure that there are going to be a lot of people that are going to say we need to build something recognizing President Trump,” Burgum said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 3, 2026
As if recognizing their own name, some of the white-haired people looked up, waving.
From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray
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Vocabulary of the Common Core
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