Example Sentences

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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are acknowledging this is an impressive redo of the decades-old Fedscope site, the data from which was usually out of date and impossible to extract or manipulate.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

The local government and residents alike are acknowledging a changing climate.

From BBC • Sep. 6, 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