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This even applies to self-acknowledged cinephiles, who tend to mainline such films.

From Salon • Dec. 11, 2022

Opposite this group is those who have internalized stigma: “Those whose addiction/recovery status is self-acknowledged but not shared with others due to a sense of personal shame derived from this status.”

From Slate • Oct. 29, 2017

For now it is BP, the self-acknowledged “responsible party,” that is spending the money.

From New York Times • May 10, 2010

Kyrylo Fesenko, the Ukrainian big man filling in for Okur, had just two points in 13 minutes while playing self-acknowledged inadequate defense.

From Newsweek • May 4, 2010

Somehow his career in connection with Chicago gas, his venturesome, if unsuccessful effort to enter Chicago society, his self-acknowledged Philadelphia record, rendered the sensitive cohorts of the ultra-conservative exceedingly fearful.

From The Titan by Dreiser, Theodore