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Recognition

/rˌɛkəˈɡnɪʃən/
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(noun) The act of recognizing or the condition of being recognized (matching a current observation with a memory of a prior observation of the same entity).

The body had burned beyond recognition.
She gave me a smile of recognition.
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The scientist received international ____ for her groundbreaking work on gene editing.

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