Used in a Sentence

recognizing

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for recognizing.

Editorial note

Sometimes our mistakes are not recognizing the right thing to be done, or not recognizing anything at all.

Examples18
Definitions4
Parts of speech1

Quick take

to cognize again

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of recognizing gathered in one view.

verb

to cognize again

verb

(transitive) To acknowledge the existence or legality of; to treat as valid or worthy of consideration.

verb

(transitive, or with clause) To acknowledge or consider (as being a certain thing or having a certain quality or property).

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for recognizing.

verb

to cognize again

verb

(transitive) To acknowledge the existence or legality of; to treat as valid or worthy of consideration.

verb

(transitive, or with clause) To acknowledge or consider (as being a certain thing or having a certain quality or property).

verb

(transitive) To realize or discover the nature of something; apprehend quality in.

Example sentences

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Sometimes our mistakes are not recognizing the right thing to be done, or not recognizing anything at all.

2

Your goal as the attacker is to have 1+ of these transactions give you economic value prior to your counterparty recognizing the reversal.

3

We value individual contributors on the team and department level greatly, and have a fantastic culture of recognizing self starters.

4

It gets better by recognizing that still others will reinvent the wheel just because that is all they can do.

5

It could just be recommending things you buy seasonally, without recognizing the relationship between the items.

6

Walking into a room and people recognizing my face and coming up to talk to me?

7

He mentioned recognizing it as a national day and not necessarily a 'holiday'.

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That experience frightened me more than most because it showed me how bad I and others are at recognizing drowning.

9

I think we need to start recognizing that this is just the sign of low intelligence.

10

If the starting point is recognizing that people have kids and it takes time to care for them, and both parents have that right and obligation.

11

The amount of people in this thread that think a consumer device could ever be better at recognizing a drowning person than a human being is staggering.

12

The good thing about Facebook is that as quick as they are to fuck up, they're even quicker at recognizing when users are pissed off and fixing themselves.

Quote examples

1

Recognizing "the churn" so often present in our industry is a major milestone in maturation as a person delivering solutions to problems via creating software.

2

I personally wish the article had gone a little further into being snarky, perhaps subtly, in recognizing how stupid, meaningless, unfunny, and unclever the idea of.io for "in/out" is for domains.

3

> "we need to start recognizing that this is just the sign of low intelligence" > "You can not argue with people who are judgmental" You should think about what you're saying.

Proper noun examples

1

Recognizing you have a problem is the first step towards recovery...

2

Recognizing this fact, in my opinion, is a key driver in helping to wrap our minds around these concepts.

3

Recognizing this as a first step towards greater atrocities is not out of line.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use recognizing in a sentence?

Sometimes our mistakes are not recognizing the right thing to be done, or not recognizing anything at all.

What does recognizing mean?

to cognize again

What part of speech is recognizing?

recognizing is commonly used as verb.