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Recognize

/ˈrekəɡnaɪz/
To identify someone or something from having encountered them before; to acknowledge the existence or validity of.

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Every word she recognized as true."Madame!" exclaimed Raoul, on recognizing the sister-in-law of the king.'Did you think I didn't recognize him?'

Etymology:

etymology
Middle English, from Latin recognoscere ‘know again, recall to mind’, from re- ‘again’ + cognoscere ‘know’.

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111 mentions per 1 million words Frequency
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