How to Use unacknowledged in a Sentence
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Those unacknowledged values often prioritize short-term profits and efficiency, of course.
—Lila MacLellan, Fortune, 28 Feb. 2024
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The two men won the Nobel Prize, while Franklin’s role went largely unacknowledged.
—Teresa Nowakowski, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 June 2023
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The problem with spring football, which went unacknowledged in the column, was that the best players would opt out to prepare for the draft.
—Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 22 Dec. 2020
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There is a certain unacknowledged Welshness to The Holy Bible.
—Longreads, 25 June 2019
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But most think the events of the past year, made visible by both the pandemic and the racial reckoning, cannot go unacknowledged in the office.
—Jessica Wolfrom, Washington Post, 18 June 2021
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Are they not also made dizzy, if not weary, by this unacknowledged journey?
—Kimberly Drew, Curbed, 20 Apr. 2021
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Lloyd is reeling, too, from the death of his longtime secretary, the younger Miss Margaret Stimmer, who in an unacknowledged way was the love of his life.
—New York Times, 19 Apr. 2021
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In London, Roxy is the unacknowledged child of an infamous crime lord (Eddie Marsan) trying to right a wrong.
—Joshua Alston, Variety, 30 Mar. 2023
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The flip side of this recognition went unacknowledged by the White House, but it can no longer be denied: Trump is officially a lame duck.
—John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2020
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But the fifth anniversary of that formative moment went unacknowledged by the White House last week.
—Mike Memoli, NBC News, 22 Aug. 2022
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The current president, who seems to cherish the very myth of manhood that Harold embodies, is the unacknowledged echo in the room through the whole performance.
—Laura Collins-Hughes, New York Times, 16 Apr. 2018
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The Times op-ed page deserves its share of blame here for pushing an idea that has such obvious unacknowledged drawbacks.
—Jay Willis, GQ, 27 Mar. 2018
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For decades the graves went unacknowledged: no markers, no plaques, no memorials.
—Matías Costa, Smithsonian, 28 June 2018
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The one line that is, however, is just too memorable to go unacknowledged.
—Billboard Staff, Billboard, 20 Apr. 2022
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No force keeps her from having both, other than her own unacknowledged solipsism.
—Anthony Lan, The New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2021
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The stories of men and boys still remain mostly hidden, unacknowledged and undiscussed.
—Emma Brown, Washington Post, 22 Feb. 2021
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Still, the Old West was replete with swashbuckling Black folk who had their own mythos that, for generations, has gone unacknowledged.
—Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 4 Nov. 2021
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Many also feel that this trauma has gone unacknowledged.
—Andrew Morris-Singer and Brian Souza, STAT, 9 May 2022
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So nearly eighty years later, we are still stuck in Marshall’s world, with Marshall himself the unacknowledged architect of all that was to follow.
—Andrew J. Bacevich, Harper's magazine, 2 Mar. 2020
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Many of the dead want to inflict karmic payback for Sri Lanka’s countless, and largely unacknowledged, atrocities.
—Sam Sacks, WSJ, 25 Nov. 2022
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Thank you, to whoever wrote the note, for having the foresight to purchase the pad of citations, ensuring that no parking misdeed would go unacknowledged.
—Vanessa Hua, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 May 2018
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The government is building hundreds or thousands of unacknowledged re-education camps to which Uighurs can be sent for any reason or for none.
—The Economist, 31 May 2018
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Now her death is bringing new life to the stories of other Black women who have died at the hands of police or in police custody, those whose names and identities have largely gone unknown and unacknowledged.
—USA Today, 11 Mar. 2021
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Their lives were upended, their futures clouded and their pain unacknowledged as a districtwide problem was kept under wraps.
—David Jackson, chicagotribune.com, 1 June 2018
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These are essential — but often unacknowledged — skills for students to hone.
—Valerie Strauss, Washington Post, 7 June 2018
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Yes, these are all terms for work can be overlooked, unacknowledged, and uncompensated.
—Marisa Lascala, Good Housekeeping, 6 Apr. 2020
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In fact, Al may have had one for the books, beginning his time there completely unacknowledged as the barber complains about Mexicans via his Bluetooth device.
—Lauren Alvarez, Billboard, 30 Mar. 2018
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What emerges is a tangle of conflicts and contradictions that are often unacknowledged or explained away.
—The New York Times, Arkansas Online, 1 Nov. 2021
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Conversely, on her feed, comments on the pieces in question were deleted and disabled—as though the matter could be conveniently unacknowledged.
—Amy Verner, Vogue, 13 July 2017
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The legal definition of plagiarism is broad and ambiguous, and boils down to unacknowledged copying.
—Tatiana Siegel, Variety, 9 Mar. 2024
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