How to Use metacognition in a Sentence
metacognition
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Raise awareness about metacognition’s role in the creative process.
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Joe McKendrick,
Forbes.com,
23 Jan. 2026
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To thrive in this new era, leaders need large amounts of something called metacognition, or put simply, thinking about thinking.
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David Rock,
Fortune,
6 May 2026
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The other missing component is metacognition — the awareness of awareness — and a sense of agency.
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Rachel Barr,
Big Think,
20 Aug. 2025
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This creates a metacognition gap, where users lose awareness of how complex thinking actually works.
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Cornelia C. Walther,
Forbes.com,
10 Aug. 2025
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But lucid dreaming involves metacognition, which is a type of cognitive control in which someone becomes aware of their own thoughts.
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Hannah Yasharoff,
USA Today,
28 Oct. 2025
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Their self-awareness is not a workshop outcome but a daily discipline based on mindfulness and metacognition.
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Dr. Adil Dalal,
Forbes.com,
12 June 2026
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At the core of human intelligence is metacognition — the awareness of our own thinking processes.
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Cornelia C. Walther,
Forbes.com,
10 Aug. 2025
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Leaders with high levels of metacognition are much less vulnerable to cognitive biases, which are really ruling the business world right now.
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Fortune Editors,
Fortune,
29 Oct. 2025
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Developing such a capacity would require metacognition, which involves both the ability to monitor one’s own reasoning through self-awareness and to control the response through self-regulation.
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Ricky J. Sethi,
The Conversation,
26 Jan. 2026
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In fact, metacognition is fundamental to human intelligence and, until recently, has been understudied in artificial intelligence systems.
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Ricky J. Sethi,
The Conversation,
26 Jan. 2026
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Instead, our hope is to provide a computational architecture for allocating resources and improving responses that also serves as a first step toward more sophisticated approaches for full artificial metacognition.
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Ricky J. Sethi,
The Conversation,
26 Jan. 2026
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Coincidentally, this month, Science reported that ChatGPT and similar systems are programmed to lack strong metacognition.
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F.d. Flam,
Twin Cities,
22 Nov. 2025
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