How to Use acknowledgment in a Sentence
acknowledgment
noun- Special acknowledgments will be made at the end of the meeting.
- He paid the fine without acknowledgment of his guilt.
- He's the first person mentioned in the book's acknowledgments.
- We sent an acknowledgment that we received their letter.
- He never received an acknowledgment of his payment.
- They presented him with an award in acknowledgment of his charitable work.
- He has finally received the acknowledgment he deserves for his charitable work.
- They made several public acknowledgments of their company's mistake.
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There was no school assembly, no counseling, no acknowledgment of the death.
— Ethan Gutmann, National Review, 19 Feb. 2022 -
The receiver responds with an acknowledgment, and the sender confirms with its own acknowledgment.
— Quanta Magazine, 25 Nov. 2024 -
The nomination is an acknowledgment of your peers acknowledging your work.
— Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 4 Mar. 2022 -
But for those with rare and undiagnosed conditions, the very acknowledgment of suffering is denied.
— Brandy Schillace, WSJ, 21 Feb. 2022 -
Perhaps they were inspired by the Pistons’ recent acknowledgment of the color that briefly took over the 1990s?
— Ryan Ford, Detroit Free Press, 17 Feb. 2022 -
That’s sparked a legal challenge that will go to court next week and an acknowledgment from local authorities that supply will be insufficient once Tesla ramps up the plant.
— BostonGlobe.com, 22 Feb. 2022 -
While critics may label him a skeptic, his acknowledgment of carbon dioxide’s role in global warming distinguishes him from outright deniers.
— Robert Rapier, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2024 -
The occasional car still zoomed past traffic lights; but now those lights flashed only yellow, an acknowledgment by the Kyiv municipality that no one had time to wait on red.
— Los Angeles Times, 26 Feb. 2022 -
Her references to cluster munitions and vacuum bombs are the first US acknowledgment of those weapons being moved into the country.
— Kevin Liptak and Betsy Klein, CNN, 2 Mar. 2022 -
These red lines highlight the Alliance's acknowledgment that its collective security interests are at stake in Ukraine.
— Shane Croucher, Newsweek, 1 Dec. 2024 -
Lent is an acknowledgment of the 40 days the Bible says Christ spent in the wilderness.
— Maria Carter, Country Living, 16 Mar. 2023 -
This was such a nice acknowledgment of all these years on the road.
— Staff Author, Peoplemag, 2 Aug. 2022 -
School prayer and the Bible are in, drag shows and the acknowledgment of trans people are out.
— Laura Jedeed, The New Republic, 9 Aug. 2022 -
One is the acknowledgment that Covid-19 is here to stay.
— Katia Hetter, CNN, 17 Aug. 2022 -
And yet to what gain, since an acknowledgment now would be forced?
— Amy Dickinson, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Jan. 2023 -
Is there any acknowledgment of the sexism and misogyny of that time in the film? .
— Shirley Halperin, Variety, 19 May 2022 -
More of that and an acknowledgment/thanks for reporters’ work was also in the notes.
— Michael Casagrande | McAsagrande@al.com, al, 10 Aug. 2022 -
Stay open to little gifts of acknowledgment along the way!
— Meghan Rose, Glamour, 1 Sep. 2022 -
But beneath the bravado was an acknowledgment of the work ahead.
— Jonathan Weisman, New York Times, 22 Mar. 2024 -
The choice of a gel instead of soil was made in acknowledgment of the growing scarcity of soil resources on earth as well as in space.
— Shoshanna Solomon, Fortune, 13 June 2022 -
The acknowledgment is a feather in the cap for the local tourism industry.
— Cheryl V. Jackson, The Indianapolis Star, 13 Apr. 2022 -
Scout Motors, Volkswagen's new electric off-road vehicle brand, said its first models will be available with a backup gasoline generator — an acknowledgment of many Americans' anxiety about going fully electric.
— Joann Muller, Axios, 25 Oct. 2024
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