acknowledge.
acknowledgment.
First recorded in 1995–2000
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Business has started to pick up, and inside one of the family’s rooms there are screws and a car ack next to a door.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 21, 2021
We need to remember why we were once the promise of a better tomorrow for the world, and get ourselves ack in the game.
From New York Times • Dec. 5, 2015
During the war, she felt guilty for having such an interesting job "while my girlfriends were yawning their heads off on night duty in the RAF operation rooms, or getting chilblains on ack ack sites".
From The Guardian • May 15, 2010
“Yeah; tha’s ’cause so many of us ack like Bigger Thomas; tha’s all.
From "Native Son" by Richard Wright
How many hours, how many pinutes, what time, when, ack, ack ack!
From "The Unfinished Angel" by Sharon Creech
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