recognizing

Definition of recognizingnext
present participle of recognize

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of recognizing The top prize at the ACMs (and the rival CMA Awards), Entertainer of the Year is typically regarded as recognizing the year’s best ambassador for country music. Joseph Hudak, Rolling Stone, 20 Apr. 2026 The second annual 18th & Vine Arts Festival Honors Awards will return this spring, recognizing artists who have shaped Kansas City’s cultural identity from within the urban core. Kansas City Star, 20 Apr. 2026 While companies are recognizing the importance of unpaid care, providing some benefits, the weight of unpaid care will increase unless the labor supply is replenished, Nestler said. Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 19 Apr. 2026 The Orange County Register has selected 108 semifinalists for its 2026 Artist of the Year program, recognizing some of the most accomplished and promising young artists across Orange County. Heide Janssen, Oc Register, 19 Apr. 2026 But doing so requires recognizing the true nature of the battlefield. Gaurav Srivastava, The Washington Examiner, 19 Apr. 2026 Sam has a similar if quieter epiphany, recognizing that his own humanity is one battle the future South Africa cannot afford him to lose. Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2026 The efforts of the Maywood supporters continued after the war, recognizing the surviving members of the full 192nd Battalion and redeeming the honor of its POWs. Michael Peregrine, Chicago Tribune, 17 Apr. 2026 In 1962, he was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame, and in 2004, Major League Baseball officially began recognizing April 15 as Jackie Robinson Day. Dean Fioresi, CBS News, 14 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for recognizing
Verb
  • Guardiola used a four-man ‘non-press’, where City’s forwards formed a line and waited for their opponents to find a pass, knowing that Arsenal’s centre-backs — and cup goalkeeper Kepa Arrizabalaga — had a comparatively limited passing range.
    Sam Lee, New York Times, 23 Apr. 2026
  • Every now and again, Monica, as much savvy therapist as all-knowing seer, interrupts Jean’s first-person account to offer guidance.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 22 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • Nia Long and Colman Domingo, who appear together in the upcoming Michael Jackson film biopic Michael, arrive at the 2026 AFI Lifetime Achievement Awards honoring Eddie Murphy at Los Angeles' Dolby Theatre on April 18.
    Toria Sheffield, PEOPLE, 21 Apr. 2026
  • Classic films from the likes of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, as well as Ken Loach, will be among the ways the fest will fete the dual anniversaries, along with an exhibition, a photo exhibition honoring later former president Václav Havel.
    Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 21 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • Government officials weren’t the only people interested in understanding Japanese Americans.
    Hua Hsu, New Yorker, 20 Apr. 2026
  • This is not about rushing to share, but about understanding what’s true for you first.
    Tarot.com, The Orlando Sentinel, 20 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • The study creates new criteria for deciphering old dice and allows archaeologists to further explore how games have evolved over time, researchers say.
    Taylor Nicioli, CNN Money, 8 Apr. 2026
  • The clicks are part of a growing sperm whale phonetic alphabet that researchers at CETI are deciphering.
    Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 26 Mar. 2026
Verb
  • Witnesses also reported seeing a man matching Willacy's description near Sather's house and driving her vehicle on the day of the murder.
    Robert McGreevy, FOXNews.com, 22 Apr. 2026
  • For the first time, travelers and anyone driving through LAX will start seeing the People Mover trains traveling regularly above the airport, but for now, no passengers are on board.
    Amanda Starrantino, CBS News, 22 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • Hard sci-fi, meanwhile, leans into the fact that life evolving on other planets, under different conditions, and across different stretches of time will almost certainly take on forms so different from ours that comprehending them would be like imagining a new color.
    Tim Brinkhof, Big Think, 24 Mar. 2026
  • As for whether comprehending the wiring of the brain really demands techniques from the frontiers of theoretical physics, questions remain.
    Lee Billings, Scientific American, 13 Jan. 2026
Verb
  • Does appreciating art in a 1950s-style motor lodge sound more your speed?
    Randy McMullen, Mercury News, 16 Apr. 2026
  • In the meantime, 10 is a round number worth appreciating in Adelman’s eyes.
    Bennett Durando, Denver Post, 9 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • Others have bounced between depression protocols, strict planners or generic life-coaching without ever grasping why the puzzle pieces refuse to connect.
    Lucy Jones April 11, Miami Herald, 11 Apr. 2026
  • Faster grasping smarter robots The team tested HEAPGrasp on a real robotic setup across 20 scenarios involving different combinations of transparent, opaque, and reflective objects.
    Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 30 Mar. 2026

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