unacknowledged
adjective
un·ac·knowl·edged
ˌən-ik-ˈnä-lijd 
-ak-
: not generally recognized, accepted, or admitted : not acknowledged
His involvement in the cover-up has remained unacknowledged.
Her efforts should not go unacknowledged.
Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.—
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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When tragedy struck, the two — both unacknowledged addicts — found themselves on a collision course with catastrophe.
—Lizz Schumer, People.com, 16 Jan. 2025
It was presumably dropped into the federal melting pot to become the first but unacknowledged coinage of California gold.
—Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2025
Thus far the narratives fall into three categories: private drones, those deployed by hostile foreign actors, those belonging to US authorities on a shadowy unacknowledged mission.
—Melik Kaylan, Forbes, 25 Dec. 2024
The new cinema is an inherent part of a struggle for inner and outer liberation, for the reckoning with unacknowledged realities in clearer and more personal ways.
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 5 Dec. 2024
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Lizz Schumer, People.com, 16 Jan. 2025
It was presumably dropped into the federal melting pot to become the first but unacknowledged coinage of California gold.
—Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2025
Thus far the narratives fall into three categories: private drones, those deployed by hostile foreign actors, those belonging to US authorities on a shadowy unacknowledged mission.
—Melik Kaylan, Forbes, 25 Dec. 2024
The new cinema is an inherent part of a struggle for inner and outer liberation, for the reckoning with unacknowledged realities in clearer and more personal ways.
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 5 Dec. 2024
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“Unacknowledged.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/unacknowledged. Accessed 29 Jan. 2025.
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