The word cognizant has appeared in 133 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year, including on Oct. 29 in “Part-Time Farmers, Part-Time Rock Stars: A Chinese Band’s Unlikely Rise” by Vivian Wang, which is about Ba Nong, the frontman of the band Varihnaz, who worked as a graphic designer in a large city when he began to write songs:
At the same time, he was growing disaffected by his work designing insurance ads. He read “The Half Farmer, Half X Lifestyle,” a book by a Japanese environmentalist about getting by through sustainable agriculture mixed with passion projects. In 2012, he moved home.
… He also found new hobbies. Cognizant that his hometown traditions were endangered, he visited local museums to study traditional instruments. He collected nursery rhymes in the Zhuang language, which has faded as schools push standardized Mandarin, and published a book of his lyrics and poems.
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