acknowledge
verb (used with object)
to admit to be real or true; recognize the existence, truth, or fact of.
are acknowledging
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present progressiveof acknowledge.present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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Garcia called the shootings of Good and Pretti “horrific and shocking,” so much so that even some Republicans are acknowledging the “severity of what happened” — creating an opening for Noem’s impeachment.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 29, 2026
Even critics of the administration are acknowledging this is an impressive redo of the decades-old Fedscope site, the data from which was usually out of date and impossible to extract or manipulate.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 14, 2026
You are acknowledging that all you are doing is handing out an empty credential.
From Slate ● Jul. 26, 2025
Increasingly, the same government agencies who started this fight are acknowledging that they cannot win.
From Salon ● Oct. 3, 2023
In resigning themselves to the role of chronicling ever-changing usage, they are acknowledging the wisdom of Thomas Carlyle’s famous reply to Margaret Fuller’s statement “I accept the universe”: “Gad! She’d better.”
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
