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acknowledge as in:  acknowledge her or the truth

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  • Walking through the X-ray machine marked the first time I'd taken a step without oxygen in some months, and it felt pretty amazing to walk unencumbered like that, stepping across the Rubicon, the machine's silence acknowledging that I was, however briefly, a nonmetallicized creature.   (source)
    acknowledging = recognizing
  • Sorrento didn't return these salutes or acknowledge his underlings in any way.   (source)
    acknowledge = express recognition of
  • No one will discuss these things again, or even acknowledge having ever discussed them at all, but because of it, invisible bonds have been forged.   (source)
  • Eventually, even Mom acknowledged that I'd done all right.   (source)
    acknowledged = admitted
  • This, his journal acknowledges, turned out to be a "tremendous mistake."   (source)
    acknowledges = admits
  • It was a small thing, the standing; but no one had ever stood automatically to acknowledge Jonas's presence before.   (source)
    acknowledge = express recognition of (showing respect)
  • The acknowledged expert was Edward H. Simpson, emeritus professor of zoology at Columbia University, in New York.   (source)
    acknowledged = widely recognized
  • It was shepherds who were the first to recognize a king that the rest of the world refused to acknowledge.   (source)
    acknowledge = express recognition of
  • Doug raised his arms, pointing his index fingers to the flaking gilt ceiling in the I'm-number-one sign, and acknowledged the clapping with a victory lap around the room.   (source)
    acknowledged = expressed recognition of
  • Anderson did not so much as turn around to acknowledge Ender's challenge.   (source)
    acknowledge = express recognition of
  • Big Ma looked around at Papa and Uncle Hammer, but neither of them acknowledged her glance; their eyes were pinned on Mr. Jamison.   (source)
    acknowledged = expressed recognition of
  • I acknowledge your letter concerning your proposed thesis, though I can't say that its title makes a great deal of sense to me.   (source)
    acknowledge = received
  • We'll forget for a moment that when Finch finally got here, you didn't acknowledge it. He's still waiting for that, by the way, but he's a patient dog.   (source)
    acknowledge = thank or appreciate
  • She didn't even acknowledge my cookies, though I know she ate them because all that was left on the plate were crumbs.   (source)
    acknowledge = express thanks for
  • As the Circle sat down, the Keeper drew in a deep slow breath, looking around to acknowledge each person.   (source)
    acknowledge = express recognition of
  • No one acknowledged her warning; no one seemed to have heard it.   (source)
    acknowledged = expressed recognition of
  • At school we were the best of friends; however, at home, we both knew I was not to be acknowledged.   (source)
    acknowledged = recognized
  • He did not acknowledge Aunt Queen, nor did he thank her for the meal.   (source)
    acknowledge = recognize publically
  • My friends don't acknowledge my existence, but everyone else whispers and stares.   (source)
    acknowledge = express knowing of
  • Hatton never acknowledged my reaction.   (source)
    acknowledged = expressed recognition
  • She would not stoop to admit that she meant to rival Gilbert in schoolwork, because that would have been to acknowledge his existence which Anne persistently ignored; but the rivalry was there and honors fluctuated between them.   (source)
    acknowledge = express recognition of
  • Well, Sally, I'm in fault, and I acknowledge it;   (source)
    acknowledge = admit (or recognize publicly)
  • It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.   (source)
    acknowledged = recognized (agreed upon)
  • Actually, I've spoken to her a number of times," his mother acknowledged.†   (source)
  • He raised his hand, and before Chang could even acknowledge him, he spoke loudly.†   (source)
  • But despite the shortcomings of history, she nodded to acknowledge that the Count had delivered a well-told tale.†   (source)
  • His smile disappears when he notices Cilka sitting beside Gita, her head down, once again not acknowledging him.†   (source)
  • Before you know it, that cute little four-year-old is a sullen teenager who won't even acknowledge your presence in the room.†   (source)
  • He raised his head and acknowledged the many faces he had not seen for over a year.†   (source)
  • I wanted to acknowledge a part of myself that Abnegation demanded that I hide.†   (source)
  • To acknowledge the fact brings a smile to his lips.†   (source)
  • Walter had decided to acknowledge being a "friend" of Karen.†   (source)
  • The owners acknowledged his efforts, then paid him half of what his father earned.†   (source)
  • I thought perhaps he had been indoors so long that it was all bound to feel a little weird for him, and I decided I was simply not going to acknowledge it.†   (source)
  • [We] are devoutly to acknowledge that kind Providence ...hath restored our city to its useful state of health and prosperity†   (source)
  • Widely acknowledged as the best team Hogwarts has seen in a good few years —" Lee's comments were drowned by a tide of "boos" from the Slytherin end.†   (source)
  • They told me I didn't speak or acknowledge anyone for a week.†   (source)
  • It's all right to acknowledge your mother.†   (source)
  • The boy acknowledges neither question nor questioner as he passes.†   (source)
  • Let us simply acknowledge that it was not a successful one.†   (source)
  • I can't just lounge in the Hab awaiting a reply; I have to stay in the rover until they acknowledge the message.†   (source)
  • Perhaps acknowledging his wisdom.†   (source)
  • He was a motion study in energy and turbulence, never looking right or left or acknowledging the presence of other people on the street, except on one occasion that she vividly recalled.†   (source)
  • The sad thing was that we weren't allowed to roll down the windows to acknowledge them.†   (source)
  • He'd offered Kabuo a cigar from his shirt pocket, lit his own, then brought two candy bars out of the box and dropped them on the bunk beside Kabuo without acknowledging that he had done so.†   (source)
  • Any regular little kid would have then turned and waved back, or done something to acknowledge the people in the waiting car.†   (source)
  • I have to acknowledge quite openly that it may be a fatal danger.†   (source)
  • But as far as her parents were concerned, he was the only one who mattered, or the only one they acknowledged or remembered.†   (source)
  • Tino opened the door and said, "Yo, Henry D." Then he turned back inside without acknowledging me.†   (source)
  • None of this was publicly acknowledged.†   (source)
  • Mostly when you pass farmers on the road, they acknowledge you with the subtlest of signals—a finger lifted off the steering wheel, or even a lifted eyebrow.†   (source)
  • She wouldn't even acknowledge him again, if he came up to her.†   (source)
  • 'Acknowledge, we humbly beseech thee, a sheep of thine own fold, a lamb of thine own flock, a sinner of thine own redeeming.†   (source)
  • He acknowledges their silent applause.†   (source)
  • It was a miracle Celaena bothered to acknowledge his existence—or perhaps she'd spent so long in Adarlan that she'd stopped caring.†   (source)
  • I wonder if Shayna/Shayla will actually acknowledge me in class today.†   (source)
  • Emma made frequent and passionate arguments as to why I should stay, none of which acknowledged the life I would be abandoning (however meager it seemed), or how the sudden inexplicable disappearance of their only child might affect my parents, or the stifling suffocation that Emma herself had admitted feeling inside the loop.†   (source)
  • I know he's acknowledged that boy at Storm's End, the one he fathered the night Lord Stannis wed.†   (source)
  • The Red servants don't acknowledge me, their heads down as they buzz between shops.†   (source)
  • But although Okonkwo was a great man whose prowess was universally acknowledged, he was not a hunter.†   (source)
  • When the boys approached, he didn't even acknowledge them.†   (source)
  • Dr. Joseph acknowledged their greeting: "Hummmm."†   (source)
  • Several of the gentlemen looked up at Kate as she entered, but none of them acknowledged her, except to give a low grumble of distaste.†   (source)
  • There was something between them, and even she had to acknowledge that a tame remark about the weather sounded perverse.†   (source)
  • It's amazing the help you can receive from supportive family and friends if you acknowledge your feelings.†   (source)
  • Not till John had courteously acknowledged the minister's introductions did he turn to Kit.†   (source)
  • They both knew it, but it wasn't something they acknowledged very much.†   (source)
  • Adri lifted her chin and finally acknowledged Cinder's presence by swiping her gaze down Cinder's filthy boots and cargo pants.†   (source)
  • In that Christian institution, breasts were not acknowledged.†   (source)
  • You know, Private, it's customary to acknowledge an order from your commanding officer.†   (source)
  • An hour of monologue, a poem, a comment, and then without either acknowledging the fact that Montag was a fireman, Faber, with a certain trembling, wrote his address on a slip of paper.†   (source)
  • She didn't acknowledge Park in history class, but she never did.†   (source)
  • Uh-huh?' she acknowledged.†   (source)
  • He rarely spoke and some days barely acknowledged us.†   (source)
  • What I condemn are our system of values and the men who don't acknowledge how great, difficult, but ultimately beautiful women's share in society is.†   (source)
  • If we chose to, we could acknowledge that cutoff dates matter.†   (source)
  • She also acknowledges having made brutal trade-offs.†   (source)
  • She says that's why the government doesn't bother doing anything about them, doesn't even acknowledge their existence.†   (source)
  • But this is the first time today that anyone has acknowledged what I have lost.†   (source)
  • I don't acknowledge it.†   (source)
  • It was just done to get a laugh, to put someone off their dinner—and, I suppose, as some way of acknowledging what was in front of us.†   (source)
  • The man sometimes has a boa constrictor wrapped around his neck, though the snake is never acknowledged, by me or him.†   (source)
  • "You did a good job," Eragon acknowledged grudgingly.†   (source)
  • Walt still hadn't acknowledged me.†   (source)
  • Amy's mother, a tall, thin woman, acknowledged her introduction to Adam without really looking at him—she was on the telephone making arrangements for a committee meeting of some sort—and then she dashed out of the house on the way to another committee meeting.†   (source)
  • And I want to acknowledge my brothers and sisters, nephews and nieces, and countless uncles, aunts and cousins (a few of them had problems when my book was first published but, in time, became my biggest fans).†   (source)
  • Besides, acknowledging the note would mean admitting that he had kept secrets from her; secrets he still justified in his own mind.†   (source)
  • We nodded to acknowledge other soldiers as we walked around town looking for Jumah.†   (source)
  • I didn't want him feeling embarrassed or defensive for finally acknowledging his son.†   (source)
  • Every dawn she saw the dawn, but never acknowledged or remarked its color.†   (source)
  • One day I stood in front of the one I have tagged as Dei, stayed there until he had to acknowledge my presence, and asked, "Why are there no children?"†   (source)
  • I acknowledged him with a tiny smile, found my money, and dropped it into Wally's wrinkled hand.†   (source)
  • And then she showed her where to sign the waiver acknowledging the risks of uterine suction.†   (source)
  • Though we may deplore and condemn such actions from a humane point of view, we still have to acknowledge their unconditional, relentless and irrevocable nature.†   (source)
  • I could see he was moved by my acknowledging them.†   (source)
  • I was too aggravated to acknowledge him.†   (source)
  • "This place must seem silly to you," he acknowledges, watching her gaze up at the walls.†   (source)
  • Yet Mommy refused to acknowledge her whiteness.†   (source)
  • He acknowledged that they knew what they were doing in their domains.†   (source)
  • Now the first thing we have to acknowledge about this masterpiece is that it is absolutely real.†   (source)
  • He acknowledges my presence and I nod approvingly but choose not to interrupt him.†   (source)
  • They acknowledge no responsibility whatsoever.†   (source)
  • "I'll keep an eye on her," said Lieutenant Awn, silently acknowledging my information with a twitch of her fingers.†   (source)
  • she asked, finally acknowledging their presence.†   (source)
  • Although he was gracious in acknowledging defeat, Depew doubted that Chicago really understood the challenge that lay ahead.†   (source)
  • acknowledged with a thumbs-up, having already dialed in my dope.†   (source)
  • Yet he is always ready to acknowledge the potential salvation that resides in a sinner's heart.†   (source)
  • Nadia was herself coming to acknowledge that this was no longer a city where the risks facing a young woman living independently could be thought of as manageable, and equally importantly she worried for Saeed each time he drove over to see her and back again.†   (source)
  • Looking straight ahead as she walked, she did not acknowledge the people yelping at her heels, like mad dogs.†   (source)
  • He wondered how many knew they were continuing a pre-Christian mystical tradition of acknowledging the mystical power above, which, for one brief moment, had transformed them into a god capable of miraculous feats.†   (source)
  • And in this he acknowledged his debt to the great philosophers before him— including Descartes.†   (source)
  • Lacks was not acknowledged as the donor of the cells.†   (source)
  • The boy made a soft, abrupt sound when the vampire said his name which the vampire acknowledged with the quick statement, "Yes, that is my name," and went on.†   (source)
  • "Maybe," Jace acknowledged, "but that doesn't mean I'm not right.†   (source)
  • Her niceness is writ large, it is her defining quality and she needs it acknowledged, often, daily almost, which can be tiring.†   (source)
  • They had become a fixed star in the shifting firmament of the high school's relationships, the acknowledged Romeo and Juliet.†   (source)
  • Michael acknowledged that was true.†   (source)
  • "Acknowledged," Ramius said.†   (source)
  • I knew she only chased boys because her father, who hosted a cartoon and kids' show in Boca called Harvey's Heroes, had refused to acknowledge her as his daughter, even after a blood test proved otherwise.†   (source)
  • We would often pass secret adoring looks to each other and when she acknowledged my gaze my heart would race at a thousand miles an hour.†   (source)
  • Cot himself fired for pulling a sword on an acknowledged perp.†   (source)
  • Sharmak just sat there, and then Gulab nodded to the Taliban boss, who I noticed made an infinitesimal incline of his head, like a pitcher acknowledging a catcher's signal.†   (source)
  • But her maternal grandmother, Munawar, made a point of acknowledging and aiding the poor whenever she could.†   (source)
  • Second, I'm aware of the subtlety of being called on, acknowledged, and admired on the television circuit.†   (source)
  • I feel like she deep down hates me, though, and knows what I represent even though we have never told her, I think she knows I represent a side of her son that she doesn't want to acknowledge exists.†   (source)
  • From time to time, both before and after that, he would come to our house and complain to my mother and me about his drinking problem ...well, when he acknowledged it was a problem.†   (source)
  • He looked around, too, and watched as Lincoln "looked upon the people he loved and acknowledged [them] ...with a solemn bow."†   (source)
  • But Florentino Ariza was so eager that he sailed much earlier on the mail sloop, whose crew acknowledged him as one of their own.†   (source)
  • He acknowledged the relationship and his paternity, but he stated that he had no idea where his daughter might be, and he had not had any contact with her in ten years.†   (source)
  • "The men, yes," my mother acknowledged, "but my Tony is only a boy, a baby yet."†   (source)
  • Maybe if we just sit here, if we don't acknowledge that time is passing, then this too-perfect day won't have to end.†   (source)
  • In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make your paths straight.†   (source)
  • Mr. Gompers stroked his bushy moustache, held his arm up to acknowledge the applause.†   (source)
  • Presently, Leto took a leisurely diagonal course across to the lift, acknowledging salutes with a casual hand wave.†   (source)
  • Brittain glances over at Jody, but she does not acknowledge him.†   (source)
  • She often claimed she did not need to be acknowledged to feel satisfied, but that was not exactly true.†   (source)
  • What I didn't want to acknowledge was I'd specifically chosen a night I knew I wouldn't see Patch to test it out.†   (source)
  • Molly has learned to pick around the meat—even in a dish like this, where you can hardly tell what's what and it's all mixed together—because Dina refuses to acknowledge that she's a vegetarian.†   (source)
  • It wasn't until the end of the morning, after waiting in one course line after another, that Dan acknowledged the sad truth: the three of them hadn't chosen a single class together.†   (source)
  • I was left alone, standing at attention before Dad, who finally acknowledged my presence.†   (source)
  • You have to acknowledge that.†   (source)
  • If one is to be objective one must acknowledge that Eisenstein is a genius.†   (source)
  • No. He was born shortly after I started the department and I guess I wanted to acknowledge my good fortune.†   (source)
  • STEWART: But you do acknowledge that you sent him from your room?†   (source)
  • She was from too different a world, she said, as they had always both known though never acknowledged.†   (source)
  • Even the National Restaurant Association, a corporate bastion of the old mindset, now acknowledges the change.†   (source)
  • I can't share the details—it was private for him—but he told me that he'd killed people and that was the first time he ever even acknowledged that part of his job.†   (source)
  • Vivaldo and Dick Lincoln acknowledged each other with brief, constrained nods.†   (source)
  • Dear Madam This will acknowledge your letter of the 31st ultimo.†   (source)
  • When Sunitha had to tell his family that he had been killed, she acknowledged that she had to be more cautious.†   (source)
  • But so relentless was her pain that Sister couldn't acknowledge Matron's kindness.†   (source)
  • She hung her head in shame and grief, for her mother refused to acknowledge her presence.†   (source)
  • I don't even want to acknowledge the bank's existence.†   (source)
  • She acknowledged their kindnesses with nods of her head and slight lip movements, but no sound.†   (source)
  • And only Willie-Jay had ever recognized his worth, his potentialities, had acknowledged that he was not just an under-sized, over muscled half-breed, had seen him, for all the moralizing, as he saw himself—"exceptional,"†   (source)
  • Not everyone believes or acknowledges that.†   (source)
  • You wish to know if I feel you are ready to duel to the death a man ruthless enough to kill your father, rich enough to buy protection, older and more experienced, an acknowledged master.†   (source)
  • Milo acknowledged the introduction and, as Tock growled softly, the minister explained.†   (source)
  • The exercise forced students to act on prejudicesoften drawn from obvious characteristics-that they'd rather not acknowledge having.†   (source)
  • Newt asked Deets, the acknowledged expert on times and distances.†   (source)
  • He had been more stirred than he was willing to acknowledge by the girl's beauty, and by a nameless power that went out from the seemingly helpless creature and laid hold of those with whom she came in contact.†   (source)
  • The Hudson, or North, River was greater still, more than two miles wide, and so, as Lee had acknowledged, impossible to keep closed to the enemy.†   (source)
  • But the women would not yield; each looked straight ahead, waiting for the other woman to acknowledge her inferiority and step aside.†   (source)
  • They will not acknowledge how in fact hard money is to come by, and, therefore, those who have no money blame and blame and blame themselves.†   (source)
  • Also—he never looked up to acknowledge the grunts of acceptance—also, we were bound to get some new equipment for the home economics building and the workshop.†   (source)
  • Every time I saw Derek at school, laughing with Justin or Brent, while refusing to even acknowledge me, I got mad.†   (source)
  • Despite a deep reservoir of appreciation for Head Start (one of this book's authors was a charter student), we must acknowledge that it has repeatedly been proven ineffectual in the long term.†   (source)
  • Let him stay that way, the colonel decided vindictively, just to show him who was boss and to safeguard himself against any loss of dignity that might devolve from his acknowledging the omission.†   (source)
  • Some births are marked by a notation in the family Bible, others are acknowledged with the hoisting of glasses.†   (source)
  • This spirit can help me if I acknowledge her, she said.†   (source)
  • The Hawkins Hollow Library gratefully acknowledges the generosity of the Franklin and Maybelle Hawkins Family Franklin and Maybelle.†   (source)
  • And then Dominique is racing excitedly up the stairs after Luke, barely acknowledging me as she hurries past, except to give me a tight little smile.†   (source)
  • Although the king was saddened, he acknowledged the boy spoke the truth.†   (source)
  • My first husband never acknowledged holidays, but Moody remembered even the smallest occasion, often by creating his own card.†   (source)
  • You had to report to the office he shared with Toricella and sign a big log book to acknowledge you had been there.†   (source)
  • "Party favor," he acknowledged.†   (source)
  • Of course there had been, the same as any dying person and his caregiver, but do not acknowledge it on the witness stand.†   (source)
  • Notable for its headrest among a sea of back-high chairs, this chair is the acknowledged center of power.†   (source)
  • It's like acknowledging that we could become friends.†   (source)
  • All that was demanded of them was that they should keep the Great Bridge in repair, and all other bridges and roads, speed the king's messengers, and acknowledge his lordship.†   (source)
  • I was standing at the head of the table shakingthe principal's hand, when Papa rose, his face ceremoniously grave, and acknowledged the other parents with his most respectful gesture.†   (source)
  • "That's true," I acknowledged.†   (source)
  • He didn't acknowledge her as she entered, but the pattern of his breathing changed, and she knew he was aware of her presence.†   (source)
  • It was not until I heard the rectory clock chime the quarter hour, and then the half, without any breath between them, that I finally called the Mompellions to acknowledge Mem's passing.†   (source)
  • In the mirror she saw DeBlass signal to Rockman, Rockman acknowledged.†   (source)
  • As Thomas rushed past him, he yelled a greeting and saw Chick's hand and eyes move, acknowledging him.†   (source)
  • But Otis either didn't hear his question or didn't acknowledge it, because he washed off the knife in the sink and turned back to Vlad, almost anxious.†   (source)
  • I gave Lila's foot a nudge, begging her in my mind to answer for me, instead of forcing Grace to acknowledge me in front of other people.†   (source)
  • At times like this he would sometimes acknowledge the crowd with nods and an uplifted hand, but tonight he rode with sobriety.†   (source)
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