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.
  • 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
  • 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 Man — on its tour to help organize such acknowledgments at each show.
    Lyndsey Havens, Billboard, 1 Apr. 2024
  • But that didn’t sit well with those waiting for acknowledgment of Dion.
    Nardine Saad, Los Angeles Times, 5 Feb. 2024
  • Church ladies, sitting on stools in their Sunday best, wave their fans and nod in acknowledgment.
    Hilton Als, The New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2024
  • Yet to what gain, because an acknowledgment now would be forced?
    Amy Dickinson, Washington Post, 16 Jan. 2023
  • The rule was also an acknowledgment that some teams were unwilling to do so on their own.
    Clara Ence Morse, Washington Post, 21 Sep. 2022
  • Many public events start with an acknowledgment of the traditional owners of the land the event is held on.
    Yan Zhuang, New York Times, 21 Oct. 2023
  • The award is intended as an acknowledgment of a restaurant’s potential to be named to the list at some point in the future.
    Jenn Harris, Los Angeles Times, 6 June 2024
  • Absent is an acknowledgment that the tourists weren’t the only people whom many New Yorkers were glad to see gone.
    Zoë Beery, The Atlantic, 23 Dec. 2022
  • That’s meaningful work, and this acknowledgment will go a long way.
    Misty Dykema, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2024
  • There was so much noise about whose offenses were greater, and very little acknowledgment of shades of gray.
    Time, 12 Dec. 2022
  • People stay at jobs first and foremost for acknowledgment, and secondly to feel like part of a team.
    Robert Patin, Forbes, 3 June 2022
  • Now Mosseri admits that Meta is having problems with those processes and has publicly posted that acknowledgment on Threads.
    Umar Shakir, The Verge, 11 Oct. 2024
  • Israel is widely believed to possess a stockpile of nuclear weapons, but has never made a formal acknowledgment.
    Laura King, Los Angeles Times, 8 Oct. 2024

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