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
Queenie said, “Lawd Jesus, Mr. Will, yo pa he ack lak he got a dimon ring in his pocket!”
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
“You ack like you feedin’ an a-a-alligator, boy,” Toomer laughed.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
“Ooo-wee. Night of Joy be winnin a Academy Awar with this ack. The bird get one, too.”
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
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