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Definition
express recognition of someone or something; or admit something
- She had given up those pleasures willingly; she had embraced this change out of some deep unacknowledged yearning.p. 103.2
- He had no sister, of course, or any living family that he acknowledged.p. 5.6
- Caroline watched him from the doorway—she was not allowed to enter this room except by invitation—but he did not acknowledge her.p. 96.2
- She nodded, tears in her eyes, that younger version of herself still alive, still standing by the edge of the memorial service, unacknowledged, invisible.p. 246.9
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