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As its very name, a cognate of the English word "erudite," seems to suggest, the stakes are quite high.

Huitzilopochtli's name is a cognate of the Nahuatl words huitzilin, "hummingbird," and opochtli, "left".

A chef (a cognate of chief) does more than most civilians imagine.

(Quick addendum: there's a cognate story, "Of Poets, Galleries, New York Passages," in Kathleen Collins's great collection "Whatever Happened to Interracial Love?," whose characters and discussions converge, in my mind, with the ones from Mazursky's film).

Plato made a cognate point by banishing the artists from his ideal republic altogether, supposing that the human imagination is too malleable to withstand without corruption their assaults of fantasy and falsehood.

(In the magazine last week, Peter Schjeldahl wrote about a cognate exhibit at the Frick Museum, "Watteau to Degas: French Drawings from the Frits Lugt Collection," that I'm looking forward to visiting).

(Mason here substitutes a cognate for Rimbaud's coinage "je m'encrapule," which actually makes the poet sound overly scatological; others have translated it as "making myself scummy" or "lousing myself up").

Finally, a Ub-loaded E2 selectively interacts with a cognate E3 that recruits a specific substrate.

However, in this 15th C Portuguese treatise, it is called simply 'brasil', a cognate for 'brazilwood'brazilwood

This single-domain architecture suggests that SopD lacks a cognate chaperone.

In addition to chemistry majors, this course was taken as a cognate by biology and physics majors.

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